Local News

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… actually neither. It’s Richard Murnick’s high-powered drone, and the visuals he has gathered with it are gaining attention.

A Flin Flon resident and pharmacist has had a provincial award named in her honour. The Lois Cantin Excellence in Rural Practice award was introduced earlier this year by the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP).

They may not be fully open to the public at the moment, but there’s still things happening at the Flin Flon Public Library - a renovation, new programs and books inside and a delivery service outside.

A person who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month was at Flin Flon General Hospital three times when they may have been infectious. Provincial health authorities added the facility to its list of possible public exposure sites Dec.

Foran Mining executives believe they’ve found a second mineral deposit in northern Saskatchewan. The company announced an initial resource for the Bigstone deposit, one of Foran’s wholly owned projects in northern Saskatchewan.

A summary of calls to police from Dec. 13-19, as submitted by Flin Flon RCMP: Dec. 13 Report of a person on their way to a residence that they are on court ordered conditions to not attend.

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are now in Manitoba - but are not yet in the north. Plans are in place to get the vaccine into northern Manitoba in early 2021, but no doses of the vaccination have yet made its way into the region.

Hudbay and the Town of Snow Lake have put pen to paper on a deal that will see a new camp, business park and housing subdivision built in the community.

RCMP have found a missing 43-year-old man from Pukatawagan, last seen earlier this month in Thompson. Scott Andrew Nicholas was listed as missing by Manitoba RCMP, according to a Dec. 30 news release.

Two 22-year-old men are facing manslaughter charges after the death of a 50-year-old man in Cold Lake. Police have arrested Jay Caribou and Lyle Hart, both from Pukatawagan, in relation to the death.