Sudbury News

North American Nickel Inc. today announced that it has closed the second and final tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement .

NEWS RELEASE NORTHERN LIGHTS FESTIVAL BORAL ************************** NLFB announces Kathleen Edwards as surprise headliner for festival 2013 SUDBURY, ON - Northern Lights Festival Boral is pleased to announce a surprise addition to our amazing roster of headliners for the 2013 festival.

Two Sudburians will join more than 350 other lobbyists from across the United States and Canada on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to lobby for a price on carbon pollution.

Local motorcycle enthusiasts are in for a treat next week. The 75 participants in a 7,000-mile-long motorcycle race called the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge will motor into town during the evening of June 24 and into June 25. They'll be stopping at The Shop Harley Davidson on Long Lake Road, where staff will be on hand all night long to feed the ... (more)

There's nothing like driving near an ocean. Except maybe, for driving near a big lake, or a large river or through some nice scenery if you're more an in-land type, like your writer.

James Hodgins shot weddings and family portraits for 17 years in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, before finding a creative renewal-and a less crowded niche-shooting for mining and industrial clients.

Spence Webster, interim president of the Sudbury Manitoulin Children's Foundation, accepted $1,000 from Lee Ferguson, grants committee chair from Sudbury Community Foundation.

The Blue Saints Drum and Bugle Corps began their 2013 season with a bang. The local troupe's drumline took top honours at the Canadian Drumline Central Regional Championships recently.

MyNews user Trev Swain shared this video of what appears to be a funnel cloud forming in Manitoba, June 10, 2013.

Aarti Mona Soerensen, a manager with the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce , recently met with SAMSSA members to discuss partnership opportunities between Canadian and German companies.

A MyNews contributor captured this video moments after a crash at the F1 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, Sunday, June 9, 2013.

On 09 June 2013, at approximately 8 p.m., a 64-year-old Sudbury man was struck by a north-bound tractor trailer on Highway 69 at Southlane Road in Sudbury.

In January 2008 BayToday spoke with up and coming North Bay actor Jamie Spilchuk, at the time he had shot a few national commercials and we titled the story 'He's not a household name ... Yet!' well it is five years after the fact and Spilchuk's name may not be viral but he is known to everyone as the 'hunky guy' from the Roger's commercials and ... (more)

Her CDs Girl Talk and Don't Smoke in Bed went platinum in Canada; Blame It On My Youth went gold in Canada and Japan; Temptation, Dark Dear Heart, Romantically Helpless went gold in Canada Other peformance dates: June 22, Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, Oakville, Ont.; June 27-29, Jazz Festival Theatre du Nouveau Monde, Montreal; July 5, ... (more)

Aunts,Grandmother and Cousins looking for Brother's children ,all born in Sudbury, Ontario 1-Possibly born April 13 1979 at Sudbury General Hospital 5lbs Father Brian Holmes, Birth Mother Patricia Williams/Maxwell- Birth Name David John Maxwell, believed to have been adopted by a school teacher in Sudbury, On.

The Veselka School of Dance is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. On June 9, Ukrainian dance school will be hosting a concert for the community, to illustrate their love of dance and Ukrainian culture.

Hometown actor StA©phane Paquette is the Sudbury lead in Hard Rock Medical, the "unapologetically northern" character drama, filmed in Sudbury in the fall of 2012, that airs on TVO beginning June 9. Also pictured is Tamara Duarte and Melissa Jane Shaw.

A film adaptation of Richard Van Camp's Northern-set debut novel The Lesser Blessed , a coming-of-age tale about a First Nations teen, is hitting theatres across the country.

In this OPP handout photo from CTV, a train car is seen in a river after a bridge collapse caused a Canadian Pacific train to derail.

A train trestle over the Wahnapitae River near Sudbury, Ont., collapsed on Sunday, sending train cars plummeting into the water, police say.