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On Aug. 15, the India-Canada Association of Sudbury celebrated India’s 66th Independence Day with a flag-raising at Tom Davies Square. On hand for the event were (from left) Harshiv Patel, 5, Ishana Sridhar, 6 and Yug Patel, 4.

Ernie Bunka cuts out shapes from dough to make perogies for the 22nd annual Canadian Garlic Festival, set for this Sunday.

It's unknown at this point whether any of Sudbury's Metro grocery stores will be closed or converted to the Food Basics discount format, after the company announced last week it is planning to restructure its Ontario grocery store division.

Given that cancer took his wife's life, former Sudbury Wolves coach Mike Foligno said he wants to do whatever he can to find a cure for the disease.

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.