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A Thunder Bay man has been charged with several offences after city police received a report from another agency about  child sexual abuse and exploitation activities.

A 22-year-old man from Winnipeg has been charged with careless driving and other offences following an incident on a rural residential area near Kenora on June 6.

Ontario Provincial Police say Highway 11-17 is closed in both directions for an investigation.

Police in Thunder Bay say officers found a driver asleep behind the wheel of a vehicle with the motor running in the Picton Avenue and Blucher Cresent area of the city June 5.

Ontario Provincial Police said a 54-year old Geraldton driver died Monday morning following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 11 in Clavet Township.

The James Bay Ontario Provincial Police is investigating a fatal involving a transport truck that occurred on Highway 11 in Clavet Township on Monday morning.

OPP believe three vehicle thefts in Kenora and Sioux Narrows on Saturday are linked, and are seeking witnesses and video footage.

A 33-year-old Thunder Bay man faces a manslaughter charge after missing man, Kelsey Anderson, was found dead last month.

Thunder Bay police seized an estimated $19,755 in suspected fentanyl and cocaine, along with two guns and ammunition, from two local homes, resulting in charges against three people.

OPP have charged three people in Kenora as part of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation – seizing fentanyl, meth, cash and more.

Nishnawbe Aski police seized more than $10,000 worth of cocaine worth and arrested a 17-year-old female after searching two homes in Eabametoong First Nation. The teen faces drug charges.

Ontario Forest Fires says a forest fire northeast of Dryden in northwestern Ontario has expanded to 16,000 hectares.

A woman from Thunder Bay and a man from Atikokan have been charged following a traffic stop in which the man was located hiding in the trunk of a vehicle.

Winnipeg's Shane Young said he very easily could have died in a fiery crash on the Trans-Canada Highway Tuesday just west of Kenora.