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BY BILL BRADLEY Controversy erupted in Wednesday's city council meeting over Mayor John Rodriguez's proposal to borrow $30 million to fix roads.

With the arrival of summer, families are vacationing and people wanting to cool off in the pool or jump in the lake However, Sudbury Regional Hospital's emergency and trauma programs encourage the public to remain vigilant in preventing water-related

Sudbury Regional Hospital is making extensive use of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), both in communicating with and offering clinical examinations and diagnoses of patients in the region, and as a resource for specialists for, and from, other

BY BILL BRADLEY Fifty units of new affordable housing are on their way to Greater Sudbury in 2009, with more expected in the future.

The emergency and trauma programs at Sudbury Regional Hospital remind motorists that with the excitement of the end of the school year and the advent of summer and holidays to come, children may forget important road safety rules.

BY BILL BRADLEY Prepare to pay 12 per cent more for taxi fares Tuesday. Rising fuel costs are the reason, said a report prepared by by Bryan Gutjahr, manager of by-law enforcement for Greater Sudbury.

BY BILL BRADLEY Citizens who have dealt with a parking nightmare at the Howard Armstrong Recreational Centre in Hanmer in recent months will soon have a lot more space to put their cars.

BY JANET GIBSON MPP France Gélinas went to the Samaritan Centre in downtown Sudbury on Wednesday to help the NDP find solutions to Ontario’s poverty crisis.

BY BILL BRADLEY The debate is not over. Comments regarding the Sudbury Soil Study are still coming in.

BY JANET GIBSON The CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association came to Sudbury on June 19 and urged patients to get in the habit of asking doctors questions such as, “Have you washed your hands?” Tom Closson, former CEO of the University Health Network