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Almaguin secondary School in South River. Photo by Jeff Turl. In less than two weeks, approximately 10,000 elementary, secondary and adult students will head back to class at the Near North District School Board.

A BayToday reader contacted us warning of a scam currently active in the area. It's called the Readers Digest telephone scam. The readers' mother received a call August 19th stating it was from Readers Digest.

The future of the old government dock at North Bay's waterfront is still in question, but needs repairs or replacement. Photo by Jeff Turl.

This bag of drugs was seized by OPP yesterday. Photo supplied. North Bay OPP have charged two men and a woman, and seized $65,000 worth of drugs after a bust yesterday afternoon.

Photos by Jeff Turl. The City of North Bay is getting $375,000 for an engineering study and environmental assessment of the construction of a new multi-use pier at the city's waterfront.

Get out the shorts and sun tan oil. Some of the hottest weather of the summer is coming to this area over the next week! The overall weather pattern over North America is about to change this weekend.

The wreckage of a plane that was reported missing 23 years ago has been found. Members of the OPP Emergency Response Team and Aviation Services went to the scene yesterday after someone reported that they had found the wreckage.

Memorial Cup champion Ken Appleby started his day with the Cup in unique fashion this morning. Photo by Chris Dawson.

This is a screen shot supplied by police of video of what they believe is a suspect in a car wash theft. Police are looking for a young man following a theft at a car wash on Champlain Street at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday July 22nd.

Police say the driver, Robert Bailey, a 43 year old man from North Bay, was the lone occupant of the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. Bailey leaves a wife and three children.