Around the North

Rubicon Minerals reported the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines has approved the company's production closure plan for its Phoenix Gold project in Red Lake. In a Dec.

Palmer Construction has made a contribution in support of Sault College's capital fundraising campaign. The Sault Ste.

A classroom at Sault Ste. Marie's Biosciences Technology & Convergence Centre will be named for the PUC Distribution Inc., after the Public Utilities Commission donated $100,000 to the Essential Elements campaign at Algoma University.

Cambrian College and Laurentian University in Sudbury have signed a series of articulation agreements that will allow students to fast-track their education in specific areas of study.

March Entertainment in Sudbury has received $2.5 million in funding from the provincial government to go towards three animated productions targeted to children.

Wood allocation is not to blame for the closure of a Thunder Bay wood novelty factory, said the president of the Ontario Forest Industries Association.

Mark Busgang has resigned as president and CEO of Warnex Inc., a life sciences company with a lab in Thunder Bay.

Magma Metals announced a formal agreement to share information with three First Nation communities near its Thunder Bay North nickel-copper project in northwestern Ontario.

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is warning of Ipperwash-like consequences if Queen's Park doesn't halt a junior miner company from exploring for gold on land considered sacred by a northwestern Ontario First Nation community.

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) is streamlining the LEED Canada certification process to make it faster, with the goal of reducing the process to less than six months.