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Target is in the process of wrapping up its operations — it closed its Sudbury store March 30 — and retailers such as the women's clothing store Smart Set have also announced their closure.

To help kick off Maison Vale Hospice's ninth annual Hike for Hospice, the RBC donated $15,000 to the cause.

Seven Sudbury students are off to the 2015 Canada-Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, New Brunswick after impressing judges this past weekend. The 46th Sudbury Regional Science Fair took place at Laurentian University March 28-29.

St. Anne Elementary School students Sebastian and Jordan Bisschops have secured their place at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in New Brunswick May 11-16. The Bisschops impressed judges with their exhibit, Zip'N'Clean.

An oil spill in Junction Creek is being cleaned up, said the City of Greater Sudbury. The spill is near downtown Sudbury, although the city did not specify the exact location.

Another industrial mechanic, who was 28, received a concussion and facial lacerations in the same incident. He was not named.

The chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board has been removed from office by the city clerk after he failed to file his financial statements from last fall's election in time.

Tonight will be cloudy with a 40-per-cent chance of flurries early this evening. The overnight low will be -14 C. Tuesday will be mainly sunny with a high of 0 C and a low of -14 C.

Health Sciences North (HSN) is searching for two people to join its board of directors and four to serve on the hospital's finance and long-range planning committees.

Contractors in Northern Ontario are less confident about the year ahead than their colleagues in the Greater Toronto Area, says a new survey by the Ontario Construction Secretariat.