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BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] Sudbury merrymakers and those who depend on essential cab services are advised to plan ahead now that ABC Taxi is defunct. At midnight Saturday, 30 ABC taxis and 60 drivers were taken off the road.

The Progressive Canadian Party, which was formed after the merger between Canada's two main right-wing parties, is fielding a candidate in Nickel Belt.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] The N'Swakamok Native Friendship Centre is receiving another $62,000 a year from the province to provide a program for pre-teen children called Akwe:go.

Louise Gervais-Guy, a counsellor at Collège Boréal, has received the 2005 Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO).

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.