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While construction of single family homes is still on the decline, activity in the overall residential housing market in Greater Sudbury is trending — ever so slightly — upward, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).

Parents/guardians and students in Grades 7 and 8 are invited to an interactive information session designed to help students make key decisions in the transition from elementary school to secondary school.

As part of a letter writing unit in literacy studies, students in teacher Sarah Bock’s Grade 7 class at St. Charles College are writing to war veterans. The students are writing the letters in an effort to show veterans why there are valued.

Teamwork, pride and leadership are important qualities in all walks of life and in many different arenas. That arena would be Sudbury Arena, where the Sudbury Wolves use teamwork to win games.

The work done at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has been getting a lot of attention lately. A month ago, the observatory's director — Queen’s University professor emeritus Arthur McDonald — won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Gas prices in Greater Sudbury have remained unchanged over the weekend. Most gas stations in town are currently charging 105.6, according to GasBuddy.com . The cheapest gas price in the city is 103.

There isn't a lot of information about a fire that happened at the Fisher Wavy plant on Caesar Road Nov. 8. The Ontario Fire Marshal's office has been called in to help determine the cause of the fire.

Members of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) are celebrating Nurse Practitioner Week across the province. From Nov.

The winter of 2015-2016 could end up as one of the warmest winters on record for Canada as a whole, as a strong El Niño persists into the upcoming season, according to accuweather.com.

On Nov. 5, the Sudbury Volunteer Managers Network (SVMN), hosted by United Way Sudbury and Nipissing Districts and Volunteer Sudbury, celebrated International Volunteer Managers Day.