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Jason Hagen needs a stem cell transplant. Last fall, the local father was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle is challenging Sudburians to bake the best cookies they can to help send two Sudbury university students to Germany this May.

The mix of warmer weather, snow, freezing rain and rain has made for some very mixed conditions on Sudbury Train Plan trails, the organization warns.

UPDATED — March 12, 11:33 a.m. The Rainbow District School Board has confirmed students from Lockerby Composite School who are in Japan will return home on Monday. UPDATED — March 11, 10:42 a.m.

On March 10, Collège Boréal and Xstrata Nickel signed a co-operation agreement officially committing to the development of an experimental forest.

During the recent recession and year-long strike against Vale, 27-year-old Espanola resident Neil Austin was forced to move to Saskatchewan to get work as a miner. While he's now back in the area, working for Cementation Canada Inc.

Despite claims he is spending more time defending his department and its results, Greater Sudbury's auditor-general Brian Bigger said the audit department is on track to release 15 more reports in 2011.

Federal house leader and Conservative MP John Baird Ottawa-West Nepean will be the keynote speaker this weekend at a Conservative townhall meet and greet hosted by Conservative MP Greg Rickford from Kenora.

Back in 1985, the United Steelworkers set up a fund to use to help victims of the Ethiopian famine. Now, that same fund is being used to help the victims of the earthquake in New Zealand.

The off-leash dog park, funding for emergency shelter services and an annual grant for Crime Stoppers made the cut, while upgrades for Flake playground and additional funding for the Northern Lights Festival Boreal 40th event didn't.