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Haley Marier, a Grade 4 student at St. Bernadette Catholic School, is the winner of this year's “Fire Chief for a Day” contest, presented by the City of Greater Sudbury Fire Services.

Laurentian University has commissioned a study to look at setting up a law school on its main campus in Sudbury. The university is a bilingual, tri-cultural institution.

BY BILL BRADLEY We have a health care crisis building - the proposed one site hospital is going to be too small, city council was told last night.

BY BILL BRADLEY Cities, like Greater Sudbury, are badly funded, said Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae in a recent interview with Northern Life.

BY JANET GIBSON An 89-year-old retired Calgary surgeon followed in the footsteps of his three granddaughters on Wednesday when he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in geology from Laurentian University.

Third instalment of a four-part series BY JANET GIBSON The average citizen can get lost reading the $10 million Sudbury Soils Study, which sits in three volumes on a shelf at your local library.

The North East Community Care Access Centre (North East CCAC) announced the transfer of the West Parry Sound Health Centre (WPSHC) CCAC program to the North East CCAC on Monday.

CNW - The Ontario government introduced legislation that, if passed, will allow Ontarians to use an enhanced driver's licence as an alternative to a passport when crossing Canada/U.S. borders by land and sea. Beginning June 1, 2009, the U.S.

Bell Aliant has completed a two-year, $1.5 million network investment in northern Ontario to meet the growing needs of residents and businesses in Sault Ste. Marie and the many communities along Highway 17 to Sudbury.

Wednesday, June 4 is Camp Day - the one day each year when every penny from coffee sales at Tim Hortons stores across Canada and the United States is donated to the Tim Horton Children's Foundation.