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The provincial education ministry is holding a series of public information sessions on the new K-12 education review, but there will not be one in Flin Flon.

A Grade 9 student from Hapnot Collegiate is heading east to represent northern Manitoba once again.

Two Flin Flon School Division (FFSD) students will be heading to Winnipeg to take part in a student session on the provincial education ministry’s ongoing K-12 education review.

Nearly a year after its first edition, the taste of Blueberry Jam seems to have lingered for the North. The music event was named the Event of the Year at the recent Northern Manitoba Tourism Awards held in The Pas.

The town of Creighton is nearing the release of its 2019-20 budget. Council members discussed a budget draft for the second meeting in a row, suggesting some minor tweaks from the first to the second edition of the document.

Firefighters from Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach are headed west to help fight cancer. The fifth-annual Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge raises money for firefighters and citizens living with cancer.

After a stalemate that lasted months, Hudbay has reached an agreement with its second-largest shareholder.

When Violetta Coe and her son called her husband Allan to tell him she had won the April 19 Western Max lottery, he had a short but descriptive response. “He asked me if I was sitting down,” Allan said.

Manitoba’s two biggest political parties have selected their Flin Flon candidates for the upcoming provincial election.

The gears are in motion for the 2019 Flin Flon Pride weekend, with hopes of introducing some new events to this year’s proceedings.