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Northern Life columnist Eric Moore won the grand prize in A&W restaurant’s 50th Anniversary My Favorite Memories contest. His “burger” memory, “blew the judges away,” according to a news release.

BY JASON THOMPSON Injury is the fourth highest economic drain on Canada’s health-care system. Yet, for some reason, less than one percent of research dollars are spent on education and studying ways to prevent accidents. Dr.

(CNW) In co-operation with Health Canada, World Kitchen, LLC announces the recall of Corelle Hearthstone Indigo Blue and Turmeric Yellow square lunch plates and ChiliRed round lunch plates sold in Canadian retailers other than the CorningWare/Corelle

BY GIANNI UBRIACO For half a century now, the Sudbury and District Health Unit (SDHU) has been providing residents with provincially legislated public health programs and services, and that milestone was celebrated at Bryston’s on the Park Wednesday

Evacuees from the Long Lake Reserve in northwestern Ontario are back home now after spending nearly a week in Greater Sudbury.

Ward 12 candidate Derek Young will be at Frosty Bites Ice Cream Shop on Notre Dame Ave. this Sunday, Sept. 24 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm.

Fern Cormier, a candidate for council in Ward 10, says if he is elected he will make it one of his priorities to investigate and promote the possibility of re-locating the rail tracks and yards that run through the middle of the city.

BY JASON THOMPSON Greater Sudbury is on the right track. That's the message former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna spread at a gathering at Tom Davies Square Wednesday.

After being privatized in the 1990s, the Brazilian company that seeks to take over Inco Ltd. moved towards outsourcing union jobs and restraining wage increases.

Rejecting a staff recommendation, the city’s priorities committee voted Wednesday night to include designations like “boulevard” and “court” on street signs to help people distinguish between roads with similar names.