Local News

Greater Sudbury Police Service will be hosting their third annual Polar Plunge on March 5 in partnership with HOT 93.5 and the Sudbury Police Association.

Ontario Northland will host a job fair in North Bay on Wednesday, Feb. 17 to fill a number of vacancies, including nine production worker positions.

It's going to be a pretty mild weekend out there with some snow in the forecast. Saturday will be cloudy and there is a 60 per cent chance of flurries late in the morning and in the afternoon. High will be -2.

Greater Sudbury's economy continued its slide in January, with the city's jobless rate increasing again, even as Ontario as a whole added jobs. Unemployment in the city rose to 8.6 per cent last month, up from 8.

Laurentian University has signed an agreement to help improve mining and French-language education in the west African country of Ivory Coast.

Ian Wood started with the tough industry news on Thursday. “I won't dwell a lot on it, between 2014 and 2015, we went from 5.9 per cent to 8.4 per cent unemployment, and there's no way to sugar coat that,” said Wood.

The high-profile trial of former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi has spurred a public conversation around the issue of sexual violence and victimization.

Sudbury MP Paul Lefebvre has been named to the House of Commons’ standing committees of Public Accounts and Official Languages.

The City of Greater Sudbury would like to advise residents that the Ramsey Lake Skating Path will open today from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The path will be open on Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.

Rainbow District School Board is turning down the heat and inviting all students and staff to wear a sweater Feb. 12.