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Collège Boréal is holding its open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 28. “Come check out our programs, meet our professors, and tour our campus,” a press release said. The college's Sudbury campus is located at 21 Lasalle Blvd.

The complexities of modern police work are a major factor behind soaring policing costs, says Greater Sudbury Police Chief Paul Pedersen.

Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas brings her private member's bill, Bill 78, the Transparent and Accountable Health Care Act, forward for second reading in the legislature March 26.

The Homelessness Network of Sudbury has announced an Extreme Cold Weather Alert in Greater Sudbury for the next 24 hours.

Past Northern Ontario Business and Sudbury Living Magazine publisher Patricia Mills has been selected as a torchbearer in the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay.

"Those conditions and the environment have changed dramatically over the past 24 years (since the program began),” Morrison said. “Technology is used every day in every Rainbow school, elementary and secondary ...

The westbound curb lane of Lasalle at Carmen Street will be closed from this morning, 8:30 a.m., until tomorrow morning for repairs to a sewer line.

Details of the project have been posted to the city's website (www.greatersudbury.ca/living/roads/second-avenue).

Tonight expect wet snow mixed with rain, changing to snow overnight. The overnight low will be -5 C. Thursday will be mainly cloudy with a 60-per-cent chance of flurries in the afternoon and evening. The high for the day will be 1 C.

An anti-poverty group in Greater Sudbury is calling on the city to extend the operating season of the Emergency Out of the Cold Homeless Shelter, which is slated to close on March 31.