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Northeastern Ontario leads the rest of the province for participation in breast cancer screenings, according to the latest Cancer System Quality Index Report, released by the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario.

The Rainbow District Animal Shelter in Azilda won the last contract in 2009, which is worth more than $400,000 a year. But in February, city council approved a number of changes when the work went out to tender again in March.

A local service that helps people with mental health issues build their occupational skills, and was once called one of Sudbury's best kept secrets, is about to expand to a larger space.

RBC Foundation has donated $12,000 to the Laurentian University Faculty of Architecture in support of continuing education and celebrating the important role Laurentian University plays in furthering the education of thousands of Canadians each year.

Dutrisac has long fought to make it easier for residents who own land zoned for agriculture to split up and sell their land.

Don’t forget your umbrella when you head out this morning. A risk of thunderstorms on Tuesday will bring showers and a daytime temperature high of 18 C.

“Rather than going through a wide-open public process, and in recognition that there is not much time remaining in the council term, council may wish to truncate the process of filling the vacancy in Ward 1,” the report says.

Health Sciences North is now the only hospital in Northern Ontario where patients can receive a new state-of-the-art heart surgery.

The city's planning committee will get a detailed report tonight on revisions the Official Plan, the document that is the basis for all zoning and other land use decisions in Greater Sudbury.

Twenty-two people have lost their lives in the waters of Junction Creek. Since the death of Adam Dickie in 2007, there haven't been any more lives lost. And that's the goal of the Fast Flowing Water initiative — to keep the number at 22.