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  Major international mining conference kicks off in Sudbury this week

  Greater Sudbury in partnership with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, is hosting the organization's annual mining conference.

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  Mattawa driver charged for ‘excessive speed’: OPP

  A Mattawa driver was travelling more than 145 km/h on Highway 17, police say.

• Plate reader alert results in traffic stop, arrest in northern Ont.: OPP

  Officers with North Bay Ontario Provincial Police stopped a vehicle in Callander after receiving a notification from their automated licence plate reader.

• Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard found not guilty of sexual assault

  Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in northeastern Ontario eight years ago. The former Hedley frontman had pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.

• Here's what the jury didn't hear in Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial

  A northeastern Ontario jury has started deliberating in Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial, we can now tell you what they weren't allowed to hear.

• Motorcyclist suffers serious injuries in Highway 11 crash, police investigating

  A motorcyclist is left with serious, life-altering injuries after a crash on Highway 11 in northern Ontario on Wednesday morning.

• Jury begins deliberations in Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial

  The jury tasked with determining if Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard sexually assaulted a young woman in northeastern Ontario eight years ago began deliberating Friday after nearly two weeks of testimony that saw the singer and his accuser give starkly different accounts of what happened.

• West Ferris students collect thousands of pounds of food for North Bay Food Bank

  If you live in North Bay, you may have seen students from West Ferris Secondary School go door-to-door Wednesday evening collecting food for the local food bank.

• Sudbury police lay 16 charges in off-road vehicle safety blitz

  After receiving complaints about off-road vehicles, police in Greater Sudbury laid more than a dozen charges in a recent safety blitz.

• Hoggard sex assault trial: Defence says woman is lying, Crown says she is 'unshaken'

  Defence lawyers for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard attacked the credibility of his accuser Thursday as they made their final pitch to jurors in the singer's sexual assault trial, suggesting the woman lied about the encounter to cover up her infidelity and changed details of her account over time.