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After being shut down for more than a year, the Lac Des Iles palladium mine is now back in production. The operation, located about an hour north of Thunder Bay, has 180 people back on the payroll.

One of the city's biggest box stores is about to get even bigger. Officials at WalMart have announced plans to expand the store into a Super WalMart. In just a couple of weeks, construction is expected to start.

A man is charged with theft after a vehicle was stolen last month. On March 5 a 71-year-old man, delivering newspapers, stopped at a fast-food restaurant around 5 a.m. While inside the restaurant, his SUV was stolen.

A Kenora female is charge with assault with a weapon after a stabbing Tuesday night. Kenora OPP responded to a report of a stabbing at a Forth Street residence Tuesday. The female, also charged with assault, was found inside.

It’s not what you say but how you say it for students in the social work program. Confederation College social service worker program held its fourth annual addiction fair on Wednesday.

The body of a missing man was recovered Tuesday evening. Nipigon OPP discovered the 63-year-old Thunder Bay man in the Nipigon River around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Recently, Jaime Escalante passed away at age 79.

Thunder Bay’s signature landmark gracing our waterfront horizon, shrouded sometimes by clouds, other times mysteriously expanded in hue and dimension depending on the weather, most appropriately belongs on TBSO’s final Masterworks concert program of

Chemistry: it’s gotta be there from the get-go. Whether folks brought together for business or pleasure, whether for a little or a lot of both, the only way things will work out just fine, just jim-dandy, comes down to chemistry.

Most anglers serious about their passion will at one time or another go on a fly-in fishing trip to some remote lake up north.