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Hudbay is reporting partial progress in efforts to hammer out a new deal with the striking tradespeople of IAM Local 1848.

Rebecca Kozar, a summer student at the Flin Flon Station Museum, poses with a telephone switchboard once used at HBM&S, now Hudbay. Since opening for the season on July 2, the museum has welcomed nearly 200 visitors from as far away as BC and the US.

Provincial officials say follow-up tests prove water from a lake near Sherridon can be safely discharged, but the mayor of the tiny town wants the government to use stricter standards.

Area resident Tom McDermott with the late Omar Sharif (left) on the set of The 13th Warrior circa 2005 in Williams Lake, BC, on the Simon Fraser River. Sharif passed away on July 10, 2015.

R CMP have arrested a man who twice allegedly exposed himself to women on Flinty’s Boardwalk trail.

“I just want to go home,” has become the theme song for this whole experience of evacuation rollercoastering. I am included in the story, which is really a change.

The northern Saskatchewan village of Pinehouse received word residents would be able to return home after a mandatory evacuation was ordered earlier this month.

A new building will be popping up in Churchill in 2017 and it will bring in even more researchers to the polar bear capital – but to research an entirely different subject.

Without heavy rains, forest fires are expected to burn well past September in the northern parts of Saskatchewan even with nearly 2,000 personnel working to battle the blazes.

Flin Flon and area residents experienced power outages on Tuesday afternoon with an estimated 700 to 1,000 customers affected. A Manitoba Hydro spokesperson told The Reminder the outage was caused by a tree touching a power line.