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A local nursing home is leading a campaign asking the provincial government to increase the level of care for clients inside nursing homes.

A pilgrimage of the Ark of the New Covenant, an object of religious art carrying the Blessed Sacrament, will be making its way through Sudbury Region at numerous events, on Thursday and Friday. Rev.

The City of Greater Sudbury has been named a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) by the Institute of Advanced Studies, a research and training centre based in Yokohama, Japan, that is part of the United Nations University.

CBC Northeastern Ontario Radio's Morning North will host a community forum on health care called “Prescribing a Cure” March 8 at 7 pm in the Science North Cavern.

Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo will be in town March 7 to speak about her private member's bill, which would boost the province's minimum wage to $10 an hour. She will speak at the Quality Inn and Conference Centre starting at 6:30 pm.

The entire crowd of 200 people attending consultations at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium Thursday night seemed against the idea of building a second access road to the school.

Another extreme cold weather alert has been issued for the City of Greater Sudbury. An extreme cold weather alert is a short-term emergency response to increase services for people who are especially vulnerable to intensely cold weather situations.

Greater Sudbury and most of Ontario received a heavy dumping of snow Thursday evening and into Friday morning. The snow will continue to be heavy all day, and end late Friday, says Environment Canada.

BY KEITH LACEY Owners of All-Terrain Vehicles who insist on tearing up snowmobile trails in the Garson-Falconbridge, Coniston and Wahnapitae regions of Greater Sudbury should be warned there's going to be a big increase in police presence.

Rather than waiting for help from higher levels of government, Greater Sudbury's city council has approved funding to combat homelessness.