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Lively District Secondary school students Robyn Barrett (left), Stephen Matthews (centre) and Jamie Johansen hold up a cheque for $5,000 for North Shore Search and Rescue. Grade 10 students participated in the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI).

Sudbury Secondary School's concert band and choir, consisting of grade 9to 12 students, went to Ottawa May 14-16 to perform in MusicFest Canada.

Over the next three years, Ontario will help 90,000 more seniors get the care they need to live comfortably in their own homes by adding three million more hours of personal support worker (PSW) care, according to a press release.

Updated at 1:48 p.m. on May 15 Police have arrested a 16-year-old suspect in connection with a series of small fires intentionally set in Sudbury, according to Greater Sudbury Police Service.

Northern Ontario municipalities need to work together now more than ever before to make senior levels of government “hear our voices,” according to the president of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM).

City council may not want to hear it, but Sudbury Transit has been operating on minimal budgets for too long and it’s going to take more money and staff to make things right, city councillors were told Monday night.

The need for more student housing is driving the construction of a new 236-bed residence building at Laurentian University.

For Gynette Cousineau, a recent conversation with a hotel guest brought home the importance of a service the Travelodge Hotel recently began to offer.

Hiring five more staff and imposing a new organizational structure are among the steps needed to improve operations at Sudbury Transit, city councillors will hear tonight.

Motorists can expect lane closures on the Kingsway at the approach to Chapters bookstore, starting May 14, for reconstruction of traffic islands as part of a new north-south collector route. Work is limited to off-peak traffic hours.