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Traffic calming measures on Southview Drive in the South End are unpopular with many residents in the area, but alternative measures would create other problems, says the city's general manager of infrastructure.

Health Sciences North's ability to detect and treat various diseases is being enhanced by the hospital's recent purchase of a next-generation DNA sequencing machine called an ION Torrent Personal Genome Machine.

There's more bad news for the local mining industry. Two weeks ago, Vale reported its net profits sank 84 per cent in its second quarter compared to a year earlier. Glencore reported on Aug. 20 an $8.

There’s no better way to end summer than on a high note and this year’s Summerfest is doing exactly that. The big attraction with Summerfest each year is the wide variety and high profile of the stage performers and this year has no shortage.

The mayors of the five biggest cities in Northern Ontario hope speaking with one voice will convince the province to act on some of the longstanding issues they say has held the region back for decades.

The fact that an arbitrator recently ruled about 750 Xstrata Nickel workers won't receive the nickel bonus for the last two quarters of 2009 is disappointing, the president of Mine Mill Local 598/CAW said.

Ontario's NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said her party is ready to work on the challenges facing communities across the province.

The Canadian Federation of University Women-Sudbury annually supports higher education in women, especially through the awarding of scholarships and bursaries, and this year is no different.

With a referendum vote still more than 14 months away, the student union at Laurentian University is coming out in favour of deregulating store hours in Sudbury.

The insolvency of one of Canada’s largest and oldest contracting firms is having a ripple effect on companies in Sudbury and across Northern Ontario.