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Sudbury is expected to have four Syrian refugee families calling the Nickel City home by as early as March, and the City is looking to facilitate sponsorship efforts for interested residents.

NorthernLife.ca brings you livestreamed council coverage this evening starting at 6 p.m. Click here to watch or click the link near the top right-hand corner of the homepage.

Due to watermain repairs repaving work both west bound lanes on the Kingsway will be affected from 1050 Kingsway at Silpaa Street to Bancroft Drive on Jan 6. Work will begin at 6 a.m. and will be completed by 6 p.m.

According to The Weather Network, Sudbury experiences, on average, the third longest winter in the country.

The City of Greater Sudbury wants to hear your ideas for the Tom Davies Square Courtyard redesign, a project of the Downtown Sudbury Master Plan. Residents are invited to submit their ideas online at www.greatersudbury.ca/courtyard until Friday, Jan.

On any given night during the winter, 20 to 45 people will visit the Salvation Army's Out of the Cold shelter on Larch Street.

A new law intended to make roads safer for school children, pedestrians and school crossing guards came into effect on Jan. 1.

Watching the installation of acoustic panels in the ceiling of the 550-seat auditorium at All Nations Church’s new building, Pastor Jeremy Mahood looked perplexed.

Most gas stations in town are still charging 104.6, a number that's unchanged from a few weeks ago, according to GasBuddy.com . The cheapest gas in the city is 101.9 at Byrnes in Azilda. The most expensive gas in town is 105.

The frigid temperatures that greeted us on Monday have passed for the time being, and Tuesday should be much "warmer". Mainly cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of flurries. Winds will be gusting up to 50 km/h and the high will be -4.