Local News

Sudbury's provincial election candidates are the first in the province to all sign on to the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Healthy Candidates campaign.

Firefighters managed to get three small fires in a wooded area near the intersection of Clinton Avenue and Perreault Street in the Flour Mill area of Sudbury under control this noon hour.

With the assistance of students from the community's two schools, the Coniston Community Action Network is once again stocking up on brook trout.

Canadian musical legend Bruce Cockburn is one of those who will receive an honourary degree from Laurentian University during its spring convocation ceremonies next month.

Azilda resident Richard Loiselle recently won $50,000 through playing Instant $100 Million$ Prestige. The lottery is available for $10 a play, and the top prize is $1 million.

“Proceeds will go toward the life-sized bronze sculpture of Stompin’ Tom Connors, to be installed in Downtown Sudbury. You know, we’re the first in Canada to honour Stompin’ Tom in this way, and it’s a grassroots project.

On May 30, Deanna Lebel will rapel down the 24-storey Place du Canada building in downtown Montréal as part of Make-A-Wish's Rope for Hope fundraiser .

Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak's plan to cut 100,000 public service jobs if he is elected could put more than 2,700 people in Sudbury out of work, said Warren (Smokey) Thomas, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OP

A water main break on the Kingsway has reduced traffic to one lane in each direction near Dairy Queen. Crews are on site to repair the break. It is anticipated that the lanes will re-open late tonight.

A 23-year-old man was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after the vehicle he was driving collided with a tractor trailer on Highway 17 around 6:40 a.m. on Friday.