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Lyle Estill doesn't fashion himself as some kind of sustainability guru. He just knows what's working in his adopted home of Pittsboro, North Carolina.

From ATVs to snowmobiles, John Hammell's sports and recreational sales are booming as just one of many signs the town of Kirkland Lake continues to ride the high price of gold.

The bustling service economy created by the City of Elliot Lake needs a few willing hands ready to swing a hammer or fix a snowmobile.

A Great Lakes port on the North Channel of Lake Huron continues to be a flash point for controversy between a Sudbury aggregate materials company and a Manitoulin Island-area First Nation community.

Long-awaited federal money for an Invasive Species Centre in Sault Ste. Marie has finally arrived. Federal Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt delivered a $13.

Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement is receiving a backlash from Sudbury's mayor and local MP's after comments he made to a local news source.

Laurentian University and its support staff union both say they hope to reach an agreement soon, but it looks increasing unlikely as neither side has budged during contract negotiations.

A successful northwestern Ontario entrepreneurship conference will return for a third year this fall. But one of its organizers plans to tinker with the format of the FI:RE (Fueling Innovation: Reigniting Entrepreneurship) conference.

Forestry is now one of the responsibilities of Minister of of Northern Development and Mines Michael Gravelle after a cabinet shuffle, June 24.

Hopes for FedNor to become an independent economic development agency are still alive, but it may have to wait until there is a new Canadian government.