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A local OPP officer will stand trial in connection with a fatal car crash just over a year ago. The four-day preliminary hearing for Sgt. Darryl Storey concluded Thursday at the Ontario Court of Justice.

Police charged the driver of a flatbed tractor trailer with a red light violation following a spill on Arthur Street Wednesday night.

The Ontario Hospital Association says anything less than a two per cent funding increase in the upcoming March budget won’t be enough to stop health-care service cuts.

A Fort Frances OPP officer is among a group receiving bravery medals Thursday from the Governor General. Const. Dan Bailey was off duty in Elgin, Ont. in August of 2006, when he rescued two women from an overturned burning vehicle.

Talk of a chromite refinery on the north shore could be premature says a mining company president. KWG Resources Inc. president Frank Smeenk arrived in Thunder Bay to speak at the Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting Wednesday.

City manager Tim Commisso says administration is bringing forward a fiscally responsible 2010 budget during tough economic times. Tuesday, Feb.

Ontario's colleges will take their contract offer to the teachers, but the union representing instructors say they still expect their members to reject it, reports the Canadian Press.

An outbreak of respiratory illness struck a unit of an area hospital, health officials confirmed Tuesday. Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the Geraldton District Hospital declared an outbreak at the Geraldton facility.

The system designed to help Canadians in need is trapping them in poverty and needs to be fixed, says a senator during a local visit Tuesday. The senate’s subcommittee on cities released a report in December that looked at poverty in Canada.

Police are looking for witnesses of a weekend hit and run. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say the collision took place on West Arthur Street, around the 400 block, on Sunday, Jan. 31 around 8:40 p.m.