30 Years Ago
City council received a request from Public Works Canada for a lot adjacent to the Royal Canadian Legion on which to build a new RCMP building to house the force's Thompson sub-division offices.
Ken Thiessen said Via Rail's trains to Churchill should extend their stopover in Thompson to four hours from 90 minutes to allow local tours for Churchill-bound tourists to include more of the city and a longer visit to Inco.
20 Years Ago
Police had received reports of 22 tires being slashed in the Goldeye Crescent and Westwood Plaza areas.
Don McIvor, a former mayor of Wabowden, was chosen as the Liberal candidate for the Thompson riding in the upcoming provincial election, in which one of his opponents would be Loretta Clarke, who won the nomination for the Progressive Conservatives.
10 Years Ago
A washed-out section of Provincial Road 391 was once agan ready for traffic after the highways department installed a temporary one-lane Bailey Bridge across a 10-metre long, two-metre deep hole created by floodwaters 45 kilometres south of Leaf Rapids.
The Ruttan Mine in Leaf Rapids was evacuated when heavy rains, combined with a power outage, flooded parts of the mine.
