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A Behaviour Supports Plan will add a regional coordinator as well as 18 new health professionals with specialized training for older adults with behavior issues, Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci announced today.

A major construction company in Sudbury will go before the city's Planning Committee on May 14 looking for approval for a 15-unit development in the Lo-Ellen Park area of the city.

Arron Pickard, Northern Life's news editor, is being honoured by the Canadian Down Sydrome Society for his work featuring the organization's “See the Ability” campaign.

Public meetings across Greater Sudbury are being held all month so residents can give their opinions on how city parks should be run.

Sudbury's main health care providers have come up with a number of strategies to tackle growing wait times in the city's Emergency Department.

A mid-day house fire on May 10 caused $200,000 worth of damage to a Falconbridge bungalow and left two people homeless. Greater Sudbury Fire Service responded to a house fire at 6 Chesser St. at about 12:09 p.m.

As part of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week, Kirkwood Place held an official grand opening of its greenhouse.

Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle is throwing his support behind Cliffs Resources' announcement to build a new smelter in Capreol that company officials project will bring more than a 1,000 jobs for the Greater Sudbury region.

There were a lot of complicated factors, but Cliffs Natural Resources is confident that Sudbury is the right spot to build its ferrochrome smelter, the company's president and CEO said.

More than 900 new nursing positions are being created in Ontario this year, according to the province.