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The cash has finally come in for the City of Flin Flon and its plans to replace the Flin Flon Aqua Centre.

For the moment, it’s almost all gone. No cases of COVID-19 remain active in Manitoba’s Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district.

Both Manitoba Highway 10 and Saskatchewan Highway 106 - the Hanson Lake Road – are fully open after partial closures earlier this week and fire danger is down.

Campfires are back in the plans for several northern Manitoba parks and camping areas, with some restrictions due to fire danger.

Fires in both northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan caused highways near Flin Flon to be shut down late this week. While Manitoba Highway 10 has since reopened, Saskatchewan Highway 106 - the Hanson Lake Road - is still blocked off.

For the Flin Flon School Division (FFSD) board of trustees, the 2020-21 school year ended the same way it started - not being sure of what comes next.

Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba's forest fires situations aren't improving, but there's good news for Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach.

More road work, slightly more taxes and more rebates on payments - those are the biggest takeaways from the City of Flin Flon’s most recent budget, released in a public meeting July 6.

The Flin Flon area’s second major heat wave in as many weeks hit late last week and last weekend, shattering another two heat records over the weekend and almost breaking a third.

Manitoba announced sweeping changes to province-wide COVID-19 restrictions July 14. Limits on gathering sizes and events are still in place, as are mask mandates, but most other restrictions have been loosened. As of July 17 at 12:01 a.m.