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A new funding model the province is using to calculate hospital budgets could have a major impact in Sudbury. The reason, say Health Sciences North officials, is the model doesn't account for the rising cost of caring for seniors in the North.

The sun will be short lived on Thursday as the clouds will roll in in the evening, bringing two to four cm of snow overnight.

With a provincial election expected soon, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath will make another visit to Greater Sudbury this weekend, this time to attend the formal nomination of MPP France Gélinas in Nickel Belt.

Girls in Grades 6-12 are invited to attend the Perfectly Flawed North Conference at Glad Tidings church March 21-22. The conference focuses on issues such as bullying, depression, anxiety, self-harm and social media. It runs from 6-11 p.m.

The watermain on the Kingsway has been repaired; however, traffic will continue to be reduced to one lane in each direction until tonight, said the city in a news release. Motorists should continue to expect delays during rush hour this afternoon.

Perhaps it was divine intervention? An atheist-themed bus ad that ran on a Sudbury Transit bus in January has vanished, says the head of the local branch of the Centre for Inquiry.

Laurentian University president Dominic Giroux said he doesn't have an issue with Ontario Ombudsman André Marin gaining the power to oversee universities, but said he doesn't think it was an “acute need.

Late last year, Health Sciences North was one of the worst performers in the province for cancer surgery wait times. At the time, only around 63 per cent of oncology patients received access to the care they required within the target wait time.

No one was injured in a structure fire on Skyward Dr. around 1 p.m. on March 11. When Greater Sudbury Fire Services arrived they found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames inside the detached garage.

Over a six-month period, 10 people accessed Health Science North's emergency department 471 times.