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A permit that was issued in error and complaints from one nearby resident could end up costing a Valley East man his motocross business.

Grade 11 Marymount Academy student Amanda Daigle has recently been selected as one of 30 youth ambassadors to attend the National Ambassador Youth Forum (Le Forum National des jeunes Ambassadeurs) Aug. 23-28.

Greater Sudbury is hosting a septic system information night May 24 from 7- 9 p.m. in the Atlas Copco Theatre at Dynamic Earth. The information session will feature Dr.

Residents should remain cognisant of the importance of properly cooking fresh fiddleheads before eating them, according to the Sudbury and District Health Unit .

The cancer care system in northeastern Ontario continues to perform well in providing cancer services, according to the annual Cancer System Quality Index (CSQI) Report released May 17 by the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario.

A surgeon at Health Sciences North has performed the first microsurgery biopsy procedure of its kind in Canada. On May 14, Dr. Antonio Caycedo performed trans-anal endoscopic microsurgery to remove a malignant polyp from a patient.

An inquest into the death of Dwane Turk, who died while an inmate at the North Bay District Jail, has been called for June 21. Dr. Craig Muir, Regional Supervising Coroner for the North Region announced the date. Turk, 55, died on March 22, 2011.

Health care, lifestyle and fitness will be the focus of Science North's Body Worlds Vital Speaker Series.

Police still haven’t released the name of a 14-year-old girl who was killed in an ATV accident Sunday in Capreol. The teen was killed when the vehicle she was riding with another teen veered off the road.

The number of people affected by mistakes in Canada’s hospitals every week could fill three passenger jet planes, says the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital unions.