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The Canadian nuclear industry will continue to cover the Town of Creighton’s expenses for learning about radioactive-waste storage.

Dentures conceal the famous toothless grin. Long unruly locks of yesteryear have given way to white, neatly coiffed tufts. Wrinkles now frame the gazing eyes. As he enters senior citizenship, having turned 65 on Aug.

When Lois (Bunny) Burke was 12, her father recruited her to volunteer with recreation programs in Channing. She’s been helping make Flin Flon and area a better place to live ever since.

The National Post’s Kelly McParland takes great delight in the “slow disintegration” of the Bloc Québécois, now down to just three MPs following last week’s resignation of Jean-Francois Fortin.

Smartphone users may not be the only ones excited by the impending arrival of 4G LTE service in Flin Flon.

A selection of calls to the Flin Flon RCMP for the period of Aug. 11-17: Monday, August 11 • Report of a disturbance, a party and bonfire, on Third Avenue; police attended and requested fire be extinguished and the music turned down.

Politicians are often accused of orchestrating some fancy footwork, but in Kevin Chief’s case it’s a compliment. Manitoba’s minister of children and youth opportunities joined his popular square-dance troupe for a performance in Flin Flon last week.

Premier Greg Selinger’s first week-long Skills and Jobs Tour won’t include a stop in Flin Flon. The premier is instead in Gimli, Brandon, Dauphin and Swan River this week to talk skills training.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall on Monday expressed condolences to the family and friends of former Official Opposition Leader Dick Collver, who died earlier this month at the age of 78.

Omnitrax has suspended indefinitely a controversial plan to haul oil by rail across northern Manitoba, a decision heralded by environmentalists and Churchill MP Niki Ashton. The rail giant last year proposed to ship up to 3.