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Two new forest fires struck the Atikokan area over the Easter long weekend. The Ministry of Natural Resources reports that one of the new fires is believed to be human caused.

Police say a youth was stabbed at a hotel in Kenora over the weekend. Kenora detachment OPP officers say the 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck by another male staying at the Lakeside Inn Saturday.

Ontario continues to move ahead with the modernizing of its forest tenure and pricing system. The major review of how companies access and pay for wood in Ontario was announced last summer.

In Sioux Lookout, a task force examining airport security continues to move forward.

One of the city's business improvement areas is looking at some major changes to better reflect the development taking place in the north-side downtown core.

The deadline in a competitive process that the province says will spur investment and create jobs in the forest sector has come and gone.

A Cochrane, Ont., man died after the snowmobile he was on broke through the ice on an area lake Sunday. Greenstone detachment OPP officers say the incident took place on Upper Jobrin Lake, located about 40 kilometres north of Longlac.

Although not initially intended to be an Easter event, the annual fun fly had model airplanes taking off on Sunday. Members of the Lakehead Aeromodellers and North of Superior Fliers flew everything from planes to helicopters at the Sports Dome.

Okay. Adult skin flicks might not be your first choice of movies to go see.

With no ice to jump off, participants walked into the crashing waves of Lake Superior for the first polar bear plunge. Special Olympics Ontario Winter Games and Northern Ontario Polar Bear Plunge held the first icy dip at Lakeview Lodge on Saturday.