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The new owners of the former St. Joseph health centre site do not take formal ownership of the property until July 28, Gordon Drysdale said.

The Mayor and Council's Roundtable on Children and Youth will provide complimentary Greater Sudbury Transit passes to local youth this summer.

Standing with a group of strikers eating ice cream on the Copper Cliff smelter picket line in the sweltering July sun, Chris True shared his worries about what things might be like when he returns to work after the nearly year-long strike against Val

Sudbury Regional Hospital's emergency and trauma programs are warning all terrain vehicle (ATV) users to exercise caution this summer.

Greater Sudbury, along with most of central and southern Ontario and Quebec, will be seeing hot and humid temperatures until this weekend. A warm air mass has settled over both provinces, bringing temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s.

Andrew Miller was destined to be a soldier from the time he was a young boy. “At age seven, he had his room decorated in camouflage netting,” David Bedard, a friend of the family, said at the private’s funeral July 3.

Sara Purvis snapped photos of a young moose being petted on the side of Highway 69 at Burwash over the long weekend. Purvis and her husband had taken their children to see the abandoned jail in Burwash, but the road was blocked off.

Steelworkers District 6 director Wayne Fraser said he hopes a strike at Vale's Voisey's Bay mine in northern Labrador will end now that workers in Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ont. have a collective agreement, according to media reports.

The city is conducting fire flow testing in several industrial areas of the community between July 6 and 9, which may result in discoloured water. The tests require the opening of fire hydrants in each area for about five minutes.

City councillors have OK'd the draft of a new bylaw that prohibits drive-thrus in the downtown core and changes restrictions to drive-thrus elsewhere in the city. The draft bylaw was discussed at a planning committee meeting June 21.