Around the North

Guy Labine has been appointed chief executive officer of Science North in Sudbury, effective May 7.

A 44-lot industrial park located in the eastern end of Sudbury has been approved by the city's planning committee.

Housing starts in Sudbury are at half of what they were at this time in 2010, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

Manitoulin Transport has acquired Alberta-based company Exalta Transport Corp., further expanding its territory into western Canada.

Forest and Lawn Sudbury is now the official reseller of Grasshopper Solar Corp.'s turn-key engineered solar systems in Northern Ontario.

A new report by the Conference Board of Canada predicts Ontario will need to invest $86 billion in electricity infrastructure in order to meet provincial needs over the next 20 years.

Graphic design professionals from around the world will collaborate via teleconference in Sudbury this week for the third annual Lateral Thinkers design conference.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Grassy Narrows First Nation signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on sustainable management issues of the Whiskey Jack Forest, near Kenora.

Two years of drilling by Premier Gold has resulted in a whopping increase in the company's resource base at its Hardrock project, near Greenstone. The Thunder Bay explorer reports a 269 per cent increase in its measured and indicated resource to 2.

The Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Assocation honoured its own at its annual awards in Thunder Bay, April 5.