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Frontier Collegiate Institute’s teachers and staff congratulated the largest graduating class in recent history as 37 students received their diplomas on Wednesday.

The Flin Flon school board recently announced it is developing a policy around transgender rights in the schools, a sensitive topic that has ignited controversy in other jurisdictions.

Another question mark has been removed from the future of the Flin Flon Aqua Centre as an effort to revamp the facility now has a committee behind it. Tricia Tetlock has put her name forward as chairperson for the committee.

City worker Shawn Bowman helped flush the lines from a fire hydrant on North Avenue last week.

The Northern Health Region (NHR) and a First Nations health provider have signed an agreement that promises to strengthen relations and improve patient care.

Scott Stinson has a radical solution to the peculiarities rising from the NHL entry draft as presently structured. Abolish it. Writing this week in the National Post , Stinson pokes holes in this business of teams picking players based on a lottery.

A 19-year-old man from Norway House hopes to become the next grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), which represents northern Manitoba First Nations. Tyler Duncan has announced he will run for the position in September’s election.

The International Association of Machinists (IAM) will be hosting a road hockey tournament this Sunday, June 28, at their strike headquarters on Church Street.

Cross Lake RCMP charged a 20-year-old man with two counts of second-degree murder Wednesday after two men were killed in the northern Manitoba community last week. Dennis Mitchell McLeod is scheduled to appear in court in Thompson on July 24.

Flin Flon students could be climbing aboard a historic mode of transportation. The school board is considering whether to incorporate voyageur canoe lessons into the curriculum.