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Slightly increased production in northern Manitoba and the opening of a new mine in Peru weren’t enough to stave off big losses for Hudbay in the second quarter, the company reported Wednesday. Hudbay lost $55.

A Department of Justice lawyer is seeking the dismissal of a Flin Flon man’s $36-million lawsuit against the federal government.

Aarron McIntyre Innerst, 10, and grandmother Jan McIntyre spent part of Wednesday tending to the garden beneath the wolf mural sign in Jan’s Centre Street yard. The mural is the work of Flin Flon artist Tim Dubreuil, Jan’s son-in-law.

Four geology students from the UK are spending five weeks touring Flin Flon’s rock face to develop new maps and collect data.

The Flin Flon Motorcycle Association (FFMA) this week presented more than $17,000 to be split between the Wish Foundation and A Port in the Storm.

The Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region says it has dealt with shortcomings that once left the Creighton Health Centre with a failing grade from officials.

In 1990, three years after the Northern Gateway Museum closed its doors, Norma Barr’s phone rang. Asked to help reopen the Denare Beach institution, she leapt at the chance. “I was thrilled,” Barr recalled.

The fizz has returned to Arctic Beverages. Out from under a creditor protection order filed last year, northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba’s Pepsi distributor is thriving under new ownership, says general manager Harold Bonazew.

She currently lives in Winnipeg, but northern Manitoba MP hopeful Rebecca Chartrand says she’s no parachute candidate.

Upheaval over the meaning of a picket-free zone near Hudbay is the latest development in the nearly three-month partial strike at the company.