Sudbury

Pioneer Construction of Sudbury has been awarded an $8.3-million contract to rebuild a 24-kilometre section of Highway 527 in northwestern Ontario. Work begins this summer on the stretch beginning eight kilometres north of Highway 881.

Construction has begun on Sudbury ’s new $63.1-million biosolids management facility . The plant will process sludge resulting from sewage treatment.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Collège Boréal has released, since the beginning of this month, almost 10,000 young rainbow trout in the Greater Sudbury area.

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.