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Drone Malone gives us another interesting and unique perspective on this year's Pond Hockey Festival on the Rocks.

The bishop of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, in Sudbury, says he hopes a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision to strike down the the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death in certain cases is appealed.

City councillors expressed concerns about some of the proposed options to get to a tax freeze this year, a reflection of the difficult decisions ahead of passing a final $512 million budget by early March.

Tonight will have increasing cloudiness with snow beginning overnight. The overnight low will be -18 C, feeling more like -27 C. Wednesday, expect five to 10 cm of snow throughout the day. The high will be -6 C and the low -22 C.

A new city policy is giving homeowners more options when it comes to dealing with sewer backups, a problem more common in Sudbury than other communities because of our aging infrastructure.

SAULT STE. MARIE — Sault Ste. Marie city council voted unanimously Monday to approve a motion to have all closed municipal meetings electronically recorded with audio/visual equipment.

Health Sciences North has added seven more hospitals in northeastern Ontario to its virtual critical care unit.

To help small- and medium-sized businesses succeed in an increasingly globalized world, Sudbury will host the 2015 Naturallia business-to-business matchmaking event in November.

The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation hopes a new program can address the gap between good innovative ideas, and applying them to the mining industry.

The process of passing Greater Sudbury's $512 million budget for 2015 picks up pace this week, with two meetings slated for Tuesday and Wednesday. The budget is a particular challenge this year, for a number of reasons.