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Apparently Mother Nature is playing a bit of an April Fools prank of her own. It's going to be a chilly weekend, with chances of flurries. Saturday will be mainly cloudy with a few flurries beginning in the morning. High will only get up to -2.

The news business can get pretty hectic and stressful at times, so when reporters have a chance to have some fun at the expense of their editor, they make the most of it. Check out some hidden camera footage of NorthernLife.

The 10-day Kiwanis Music Festival is currently underway at St. Andrews Place in downtown Sudbury, with hundreds of local young musicians strutting their stuff and showing off their talents for the judges. NorthernLife.

Jim Allsop doesn't consider himself a hero, but a family in Cancun, Mexico may very well think otherwise. Allsop and his wife, Lynda, were vacationing at a resort over the Easter weekend.

The Ontario Lottery Gaming announced this past week that more than $100 million has been raised through Ontario Charitable Gaming and 1,800 charities have benefitted from gaming since 2005.

The Regional Business Centre is introducing extended hours, one day per week in order to help provide entrepreneurs with increased access to support for their business. As of April 5, the Centre will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Thanks to a $110,000 donation from the Lions Club District A5, parents of premature babies in the northeast won't have to travel to Toronto to initially diagnose the growth of their eye vessels.

The Ontario SPCA has confirmed it's investigating a Sudbury kennel facility after concerns were raised about the welfare of animals in its care.

The health-care system in Ontario is about to undergo another restructuring, but the jury is out as to whether it will result in better care or if it’s simply an exercise in inconsequential fiddling. In a discussion paper released Dec.

Sudbury's Wallbridge Mining Company had an operating profit $3.48 million before royalty expense, and amortization and depletion for 2015. The company's Broken Hammer open pit mine in Greater Sudbury produced 174,000 tonnes of ore containing 3.