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Sudbury native Jacqueline Villeneuve said last September's terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya came as a shock, but won't dissuade her from her work helping orphaned and abandoned children in the country.

If the crowd in the Rainbow Centre Mall food court Feb. 22 is any indication, Sudbury's homeless population has a lot of people in its corner.

Last year at this time, Laurentian University was celebrating, as it had the highest increase in application numbers of any Ontario university, at 20 per cent. This year, applications at the university are down about one per cent over last year.

Some residents who normally receive curbside waste collection services on Fridays in certain areas of the city will have to wait until Saturday.

Interested in buying a Ring of Fire bond? The Ontario Chamber of Commerce suggests that could be one way to expedite the lagging development of the series of high-grade chromite and base metals in the James Bay lowlands.

It started as a hole in the ground, but after a $760-million investment, Vale's Totten Mine had its official opening Friday.

In 1988, Jackie Balleny started teaching in a small Northern Ontario community. At the time, she was married to a man. Seven years later, though, her marriage had broken up, and she came out of the closet as a lesbian.

The first major step in a sweeping modernization of Laurentian University’s Sudbury campus will begin this summer with renovations to the iconic Great Hall. The $2.

École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier raised $1,536 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation through their Hoops for Heart event on Feb. 10. Hoops for Heart teaches youth the value of getting active, staying healthy and giving back to their communities.

Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) students will participate in the Great Robotic Challenge (Le Grand Défi Robotique) Feb. 27.