After fourteen months of public hearings, Sudbury city council voted 8-3 to approve new mixed-use zoning rules allowing denser development near transit corridors.
Soil moisture levels in key growing regions are at their lowest point in two decades, and farmers are watching the forecast with growing anxiety.
A survey found that 34% of family physician positions in rural Northern Ontario are currently vacant.
A new industrial development on the city's eastern edge is expected to begin construction this autumn.