Local News

The City of Lakes Family Health Team announced the appointment of former City of Greater Sudbury mayor, David Courtemanche as project manager for the local Family Health Team (FHT), said a news release.

Emergency repairs to a broken water main in Levack may result in discoloured water and low water pressure on Wednesday, July 25, said a news release. Crews began repairs at 8 am. Work is expected to be completed by 9 pm, Wednesday.

BY WENDY BIRD With help from two Thunder Bay high school science teachers who have spent the last 15 years studying ejected material from the Sudbury meteor impact, Minnesota geologist Mark Jirsa can say with confidence rock formations he discovered

BY BILL BRADLEY Who says there is no future in farming in the Sudbury area, especially for young farmers? On Dalew Farms, Dave Lewington and his fiancé Chantal Bedard, 20, are set to prove the naysayers wrong.

BY KENT CORNESS The Internet is being used to disseminate hate propaganda, says Leo Adler, director of national affairs for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, who was speaking in Sudbury this week.

(Marketwire) – First Nickel Inc. (TSX:FNI) reports analytical results from an additional twelve holes from the Lockerby Depth definition drill program.

Residents across Northern Ontario today are experiencing problems with their telephone service. Problems with a fibre optic cable near Timmins has severed outgoing long distance service in the area.

Canadian Press Xstrata Nickel, formerly called Falconbridge, is investing $8.7 million to extend the life of its Thayer-Lindsley nickel-copper mine in Sudbury, Ont., to the end of 2012.

BY WENDY BIRD Workers with Steelworkers Local 2020 are back on the job today after 56 percent voted Monday in favour of accepting a deal hammered out with their employer TD Canada Trust.

The Sudbury & District Health Unit reported that a bat has tested positive for rabies. The bat was found dead in the north end of Espanola on July 14.