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L’Alliance des caisses populaires de l’Ontario limitée donated $150,000 to the Collège Boréal Foundation Oct. 29.

Reliance Home Comfort and United Way Sudbury and Nipissing Districts are pairing up for the third annual Why Me? Free Furnace Give Away contest.

Students at St. David Catholic Elementary School got a little fresh air Oct. 25, during Take Me Outside Day. Take Me Outside Day is a day to raise awareness about the importance of unplugging from daily technology and getting outside in nature.

More than 7 million families around the world have become proud pet owners, thanks to the Iams Home 4 the Holidays program.

Mike Courchesne is going back to his job at Vale Nov. 7, more than four months after an arbitrator ordered his reinstatement and more than three years after he was originally fired.

Only one forest fire remained active as the 2012 forest fire season officially ended Oct. 31, said the Ministry of Natural Resources. Hearst 32 measured 100 hectares in size and was listed as under control at the time.

Funding for the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation’s (CEMI) Innovation and Prosperity Office, which links Sudbury-based mining suppliers with R&D resources in the community, has been extended for a four-year period.

For some people, the number 13 conjurs up superstition. For Laurentian University, the number 13 is an indication of progress.

If there’s one thing Roger Jackson wished more people knew about Down syndrome, it’s that people with the condition are people first, with a range of abilities and interests, just like everybody else.

Dozens of residents had already moved in Nov. 3 at the Lepokoti Seniors’ Assisted Living Residence at Finlandia Village, yet the excitement and bustle was still in full swing. The $15-million, 82-unit residence for seniors opened officially Nov.