Sudbury

By next spring, Sudbury’s Legend Boats will conclude a three-year project to build a new state-of-the-art facility where it can design, produce, and sell its fleet of family fishing and leisure boats.

Ontario foodies and locavores can look forward to more options when it comes to barbecuing as a new policy ensures they’ll have better access to local chicken.

A whole slew of big projects and big ideas got a public airing Nov. 27 at a daylong session at city hall in Sudbury.

It was a momentous autumn for Lilly Creek Vaccines Inc., as they received a significant provincial grant to develop a new vaccine, and their parent organization broke ground for their coming facilities.

Marianne Matichuk remembers picketing at her high school in the 1970s, protesting the exclusion of girls from shop class.

The Sudbury mining community has lost one of its own, following the death of André Ruest, vice-president of operations at B&D Manufacturing.

Attendees at the Naturallia conference in Sudbury received an informative presentation by Jean Charest, Nov. 12, as the natural resource sector forum reached its peak.

Former deputy prime minister Jean Charest will be the keynote speaker at next week’s Naturallia networking forum in Sudbury. Charest, who served as Quebec’s premier from 2003 to 2012, is currently a partner at the law firm McCarthy Tétrault.

A Sudbury biomedical firm is receiving $250,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage fund for ongoing research to develop a vaccine for a bacterium that can cause stomach cancer.

Latitude 46 Publishing will launch its first publication, Along the 46th, a short story anthology featuring new works of fiction from an eclectic mix of Northern Ontario authors, on Nov. 14.