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Hart Stores Inc, an operator of mid-sized department stores, reported net earnings of $2.1 million for the third quarter ended Oct. 29, compared with $1.4 million for the same period in the previous year, an increase of 44.9 percent.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] The Ministry of Natural Resources is officially reviewing an application by the Whitefish Lake First Nation to expand its reserve by 2,800 hectares (7,000 acres).

BY TRACEY DUGUAY [email protected] A medical state of emergency has been declared. The Sudbury Regional Hospital?s emergency room is overflowing. Children with blazing fevers and aching bones are home from school.

Atlas Copco Construction & Mining Canada announced today a long-term partnership investment in the mining and earth sciences attraction Dynamic Earth.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Derek MacDonald and his wife Bindu Bittiri are from the Maritimes and admit they felt like a fish out of water in Canada?s biggest city.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Saying there?s power in numbers, the largest union representing miners in Greater Sudbury and across Canada has made a renewed commitment to increase solidarity among Steelworkers around the world.

BY TRACEY DUGUAY [email protected] There?s gold in d?em dere pipes. Well, not exactly, but pretty darn close as Sudbury residents brace for another 4.5 percent increase in water and wastewater rates.

(CNW) Consumers will have to pay almost $3 billion more a year for electricity in Ontario after 2008 if the provincial government does not alter its plans to shut down the coal-fired generating plants, warns an independent study released by the Assoc

BY TRACEY DUGUAY [email protected] Council will decide next week whether it's adopting a new winter operations policy costing $9.8 million or $10.4 million a year. BRADLEY There's $10.

The city is warning that the completion of a new water treatment system may result in temporarily discoloured water in Capreol Friday. Work will begin at 9 am and is scheduled to be complete by noon.