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About 40 volunteers gathered at Collège Boréal to sort through more than 400 boxes of food on Dec. 11.

UPDATED: Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. The Elgin Street Mission has extended its extreme cold weather alert. The first alert was issued on Dec. 11, and a second was issued on Dec. 12.

Students from Chelmsford Valley District Composite School (CVDCS) will be collecting canned food items for the Chelmsford Food Bank on Dec. 14.

The city of Greater Sudbury is the recipient of $231,485.92 from the provincial government to enhance an immigration web site. The city will use the funds to develop an app that can be used on iPhones and iPads. The website, www.mysudbury.

The province has invested $58,500 in four community-based initiatives to help youth at risk through its Safer and Vital Community Grant Program. The projects being funded support this year’s Crime Prevention Week theme: “Connecting with kids today….

Greater Sudbury city council is requesting that the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) review the process of how the voters' list is created for municipal elections.

Twenty-two physicians opened practices in Sudbury this year, compared to nine physicians recruited to the city in 2009.

Residents of Copper Cliff may have noticed their houses shaking yesterday evening (Dec. 8) after a blast in Vale's Copper Cliff Mine triggered a “seismic event.

The following is a statement issued by Sudbury MPP and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Rick Bartolucci about Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin's report about special powers given to police during the G20 Summit in Toronto last summer: I have re

The new city council wasted no time appointing various councillors to a number of committees. Councillors were nominated and appointed to various positions at the Dec.8 council meeting. Here is the list of the appointments: Deputy Mayors Ward 5 Coun.