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NDP Leader Andrea Horwath will visit Sudbury on Jan. 22. Horwath will tour Stack Brewing at 2:30 p.m.

Can't make tonight's free public forum on Greater Sudbury's municipal council structure? Don't worry, NorthernLife.ca has you covered. We'll be livestreaming the entire event online.

Since 2001, a joint effort between Health Sciences North, the City of Greater Sudbury and the Chamber of commerce has brought 189 physicians to Sudbury.

Cambrian College said it's reviewing its security protocols after a Jan. 17 incident at one of the college's residences involving what's believed to be a pistol replica. Greater Sudbury Police was called to the college at around 10:40 p.m.

Faced with aging facilities and a space crunch, the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) is looking at making some changes to its three elementary schools in the communities of Val Thérèse and Hanmer.

Two Webbwood men have each been fined $1,500 and received a 15-year moose hunting licence suspension for offences under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, said the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Linda Gibson was re-elected chair of Conservation Sudbury-Nickel District Conservation Authority and Greater Sudbury Source Protection Authority for 2014. Mark Signoretti was elected vice-chair.

The speed limit on residential roads in Sudbury is staying at 50 km/hr, but members of the operations committee voted Monday to accelerate plans to reduce speeds to 40 km/hr in several school safety zones across the city.

A new organization hopes to create a voluntary certification standard for Ontario's often contentious aggregates industry by the summer.

The army passed through Greater Sudbury over the weekend, but rest assured, it was not in town for an invasion. Several Northern Life readers reported seeing military personnel and vehicles on the city's roads Sunday.