Local News

In an attempt to decrease a proposed four per cent tax increase in the 2010 municipal budget, the city's finance committee is considering the the city staff's proposal of cutting $120,000 of its professional development budget.

The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions has put out a press release questioning Sudbury Regional Hospital's ability to handle the H1N1 (swine flu) virus should the amounts of people with the illness increase again.

Stork Craft, Health Canada, and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission have issued a recall for Stork Craft cribs after four children died in the U.S., and several others in both the U.S. and Canada have had close calls.

A Lively resident and recent graduate of Laurentian University's Nurse Practitioner class is the newest member of the Nurse Practitioner team.

Death and grief go hand in hand, but it becomes more complicated when children are involved.

With construction of the one-site hospital 99 per cent complete, Sudbury Regional Hospital is set to open the hospital’s new, permanent entrance on the east side of the building Nov. 23.

UPDATED - Nov. 23, 3:50 p.m. Representatives from both the United Steelworkers and Vale Inco will appear before the Ontario Labour Relations Board in Toronto once again Nov. 25.

The Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie is facing the challenge of a decline in people attending mass and available priests, the shifting of parishoners out of once-strong neighborhoods, and aging churches.

Big, small, brown, furry and soft — Cambrian College's student centre was filled with bears of all kinds. On Nov.22, Cambrian College students put on the “Teddy Bear Picnic” from 1 to 3 p.m.

Unlike most kids their age, Ben, 8, and Gillian Delaire, 9, are not allowed to play outside regularly, unattended.