Around the North

Sudbury's Neureka Research Inc. is receiving $237,000 in FedNor funding to develop a market-ready diagnostic test kit to identify a virus that causes gastroenteritis.

Sault Ste. Marie MP Carmen Provenzano is helping shape a community proposal to restore locally produced TV programming to the city.

Boart Longyear has cut 22 jobs at its North Bay plant in a move to centralize its diamond-drill bit manufacturing operation in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Robert Milbourne, Algoma Steel's new company chairman, unexpectedly stepped down in late February. A company press release states that Milbourne's departure was a mutual agreement.

Timmins Mayor Jamie Lim, chairperson of Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), huddled in Saint John, N.B.

A campaign in Iroquois Falls to create a regional tourism industry by constructing a new tourism site received provincial funding for a feasibility study.

Northern College graduates are getting high marks from employers, and that has led to a provincial funding contribution of $152,629. The operating grants were based on three key performance indicators for 2001-02 including a 93.

A $155-million construction project set to begin in April will significantly reduce the odour at Weyerhaeuser Inc.'s Dryden mill. The main feature of the kraft mill project is a new recovery boiler and precipitator.

An industrial tax rate cap in Dryden is limiting the cityÕs sources of tax revenue. Residential taxes in Dryden must rise by 65 per cent before the cityÕs industrial rates will be affected.

Six Laurentian University researchers were awarded research funding from the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) in late February.