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A sudden fire at Hudbay’s Lalor mine has destroyed the camp kitchen and left workers scattered around northern Manitoba. Starting around 4 p.m.

Cottagers from Bakers Narrows were divided over a proposal to help secure fire protection for their area. Over a dozen cottage owners sat in the Bakers Narrows grader shed for the Little Athapap Cottage Owners Association spring meeting June 19.

If you’re hoping to play at this year’s Blueberry Jam Music Gathering and haven’t signed up, you may be out of luck. This year’s schedule is so full of musicians that organizers have stopped scheduling new acts.

Members of city council provided new information on Flin Flon’s cannabis retail situation during council’s June 11 meeting.

The Snow Lake Family Resource Centre is fighting to continue services after provincial funding for the centre was cut.

No injuries reported in fall

The band program at Creighton Community School will look a lot different next year. Grade 9-12 band students will be bused to Hapnot Collegiate in Flin Flon to continue band, joining the school’s band as one group next year.

New projections indicate the resource for McIlvenna Bay the deposit, owned by Foran Mining, is 65 per cent larger than estimated in 2013.

Further work on the Creighton landfill is scheduled to take place, thanks to a new measure approved by Creighton town council during their June 12 meeting.

Thirteen new paramedic jobs will be opened within the Northern Health Region (NHR) later this year, but it is unclear whether any of the jobs will be based in Flin Flon.