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The expiration date is coming up on Cranberry Portage’s only grocery store. Family Food Town will close at an undetermined date as owner Rick Huck prepares to transition part of the business to his nearby convenience store.

Proud mom Zabrina Morin with daughter Emily Gladys Marie McDonald, the first baby born at the Flin Flon General Hospital in 2016. See The Reminder's print edition from Wednesday, Jan.6 for full details.

Tension sweeps across the legislature as the honourable members engage in an impassioned yet respectful back-and-forth. One voice explains why the bill should pass; another summarizes precisely why it should not.

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby was once in Flin Flon, an aboriginal artist raised in the community told a BC newspaper. In an online article published Dec.

Weak copper and zinc prices have hurt base-metal miners around the globe, including Hudbay, but could relief be in sight in 2016? Mary Poulton, director of the University of Arizona’s Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources, told the Arizona Daily Sta

Premier Greg Selinger is commending Clarence Pettersen after the Flin Flon MLA lost the NDP nomination for the April election.

On Sunday, Dec. 13, on what would have been her 82nd birthday, Jude McCombie received an honour befitting one of the community’s most dedicated arts supporters.

Ted Hewitt didn’t get home until the wee hours of the morning on the first day of 2016. He wasn’t out partying. As chairman of Operation Red Nose, he was helping to keep the Flin Flon area’s roads safe.

After more than five years with the Creighton RCMP, Sgt. Mark Svaren is moving on. Svaren informed town council last month that transfers for himself and one constable are expected in early 2016.

RCMP arrested a 38-year-old suspect from The Pas on Dec. 28 after a Duck Bay man was killed. Marvin Chartrand had an arrest warrant for second-degree murder and was arrested without incident in Duck Bay, police said.