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Under his predecessor, Frank Elsner, police initiated a number of new approaches that got away from simple enforcement.

Maybe spring is coming after all. Weeks later than normal, Greater Sudbury announced Wednesday that all city ski hills have closed for the season. “Adanac, Capreol, and Lively ski hills are now closed, effective today,” a release said.

Greater Sudbury can expect showers beginning in the morning and into the afternoon on Thursday. Temperatures will reach a high of 7 C dropping to -2 C overnight.

Send us your pothole pictures and we'll add them to the map, and enter you in the contest at the same time.

In the wake of local smelter worker Paul Rochette's death, provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the province to provide adequate resources to the panel currently doing a review of mining safety.

Local brewery Stack Brewing was awarded gold for its Les Portes de L'Enfer beer at the Ontario Brewing Awards Gala April 3. “We couldn’t be happier about this win,” said Stack owner Shawn Mailloux, in a press release.

Manchuk said a number of studies have shown that patient access to a multidisciplinary critical care team can decrease mortality rates by up to 25 per cent, and improve health outcomes such as their length of stay in hospital and the amount of time t

The slow start to the spring runoff continues, which is a benefit at this time as there is still significant snowpack with high water content in many areas, said the Nickel District Conservation Authority in its watershed conditions statement.

Dogged by questions in recent weeks about her political future, Matichuk has had an increasingly tense relationship with reporters at council meetings.

Pothole season is here and it’s evident why the city has been nicknamed the City of ‘Crater’ Sudbury. As soon as the snow begins to melt, motorists find themselves dodge and weaving to get around the potholes sprouting on roads throughout the city.