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Energy conservation efforts are paying off for staff and students in Rainbow Schools. Union Gas has donated $15,750 to the Rainbow District School Board for natural gas savings achieved over the past 12 months.

Lockerby Composite School has signed an agreement of collaboration with Laurentian University's Forensic Science Department. The partnership will benefit students studying forensics from Lockerby's Science and Technology Education Program (STEP).

Going green isn't just about planting trees and picking up litter. If Eat Local Sudbury has its wish, people will help by buying their food locally too.

This weekend residents in Greater Sudbury joined thousands of communities across the world in demanding action on climate change. They attended a climate change movie and witnessed environmental awards Friday night.

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund held its Persons Day breakfast Oct. 23. The annual breakfast began at 7 a.m. in the Great Hall of Laurentian University.

The province has released a 61-page report which contains a proposed growth plan for northern Ontario.

With an unemployment rate of 10.6 per cent, Greater Sudbury mayor John Rodriguez said it's no surprise Sudburians are concerned about jobs.

UPDATED - Oct. 23 Vale Inco CEO Tito Martins and about 600 Vale Inco staff members shared a late-day meal together at the Radisson Hotel, located in the Rainbow Centre.

The competitiveness of third-party internet service providers will be crippled, said NDP MP Charlie Angus in response to a recent decision made by the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission concerning Internet throttling, a term used

Cambrian College students Jessica Taylor and Matthew Berube recently received the In-Course Excellence Award from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.