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The city is hoping to sell some real estate next month in an attempt to recover outstanding property taxes, unless the current owners step forward to pay their debts before the sale. “Approximately 20 properties will be offered for sale on Sept.

The city’s finance department has been given approval to include debt financing options as part of the 2014 city budget process. City Treasurer Lorella Hayes outlined the implications of debt financing at Tuesday’s finance committee meeting.

City council has approved a plan by Sudbury’s veterinarians to offer discounted spay and neuters to Sudbury cat owners in an effort to get the growing population of unwanted pets under control.

An audit of how a communications tower ended up on the property of the CEO of Greater Sudbury Utilities was narrowly defeated Tuesday following a day of meetings that featured bitter exchanges and two dramatic votes.

Our Children, Our Future special projects co-ordinator Lynne Ethier said she can't imagine what it would be like if she had to worry about her four-year-old daughter going hungry.

The Health Sciences North Foundation is celebrating the babies born at the hospital with a new baby wall.

Children’s Treatment Centre of Health Sciences North is receiving an additional annual investment of $122,500 from the province to provide children and youth with improved access to rehabilitative services.

Sudbury MP Glenn Thibeault has been named the small business and tourism critic in the NDP's shadow cabinet by the party's leader, Tom Mulcair.

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is no longer interested in partnering with the city on a low-cost spay and neuter clinic.

A temporary helipad near Bethel Lake which was a source of controversy among nearby residents this past spring has been torn down.