Sudbury

Sudbury-based Vianet has finalized a deal to purchase Zing Networks , a wireless Internet service provider with more than 100 antenna sites, covering 7,500 square kilometres of south-central Ontario.

Science North and Music & Film inMotion in Sudbury have established a filmmaker mentorship program, through which film-industry professionals will mentor aspiring filmmakers from the North.

Specialty Alloys and Stainless Ltd. in Sudbury is getting provincial help to expand its custom metal fabrication production company and create six jobs. The company manufactures products for mining and other industrial sectors.

Federal funding of $22,500 will help Killarney establish a community development and growth strategy.

Can tiny microbes help clean up tailings left over from decades of mining and smelting? Nadia Mykytczuk thinks so, and there is potential to recover billions of dollars’ worth of metals in the process.

Sudbury’s Collège Boréal has named Pierre Riopel as its new president. He succeeds Denis Hubert-Dutrisac, who served as the school’s president since 2003 and announced his retirement from the role last November.

The arrival of Finnish immigrants in Sudbury in the early 1900s has left a rich legacy of entrepreneurialism in the city—one that’s chronicled in a new book published by the Finnish-Canadian Historical Society of Sudbury.

The Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corp. ( MIRARCO ) is receiving $100,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.

Sudbury’s Councillor Dave Kilgour has been elected by his peers to sit on the board of directors for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).

Influential Women award winners from northeastern Ontario were recognized today during a Sudbury ceremony at the Radisson Hotel. The event was hosted by Northern Ontario Business and Union Gas.