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BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Valerie Risk didnÂ?t get to say much more than Â?hiÂ? to Hilary Duff during their brief meeting backstage at the Sudbury arena Jan. 18, but she still has hopes that one day theyÂ?ll be friends.

Plans to beautify the downtown core were unveiled by the Downtown Village Development Corporation (DVDC) Thursday. This conceptual image shows how the area in front of the YMCA could look after getting a design makeover.

With the snowmobile season kicking into high gear, the Sudbury Regional Hospital and its Emergency and Trauma Programs would like to remind riders that the key to avoiding injury is prevention.

BY TRACEY DUGUAY tracey@northernlife.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Russell McRae will never forget the summer of 2003 - but not for a good reason. Russell McRae, 22, still hasn?t received surgery for his ankle, which he injured in 2003.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] The new leader of the federal Liberal party must be well respected and capable, but above all, he or she should definitely come from outside Quebec, according to newly re-elected Nickel Belt MP Ray Bonin.

BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] There is now another option for some families needing primary health care-nurse practitioners at the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON).

The new provincial phone tip line to report illegal natural resource activities has received more than 657 calls in just four months, Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay announced today.

Sudbury Regional Hospital (HRSRH) and the Holiday Inn Hotel - formerly the Howard Johnson - continued a unique partnership throughout the holiday season by offering patients? families free lodging when travelling to Sudbury to visit a loved one.

(CNW)- Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader John Tory is upbeat about the Conservative Party of Canada victory. ?I would like to congratulate Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party on their victory.