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Thompson MLA Eric Redhead will be Indigenous reconciliation and northern affairs critic, while Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsey will be the critic for natural resources and northern development. 

Three men who couldn’t make a trip to a camp and back due to extreme cold were towed to safety in a snowmobile-drawn toboggan on Feb. 18.

Noreen Tait, a mother and grandmother, described as a ‘loving, free spirit.’

A Thompson resident since 2007, Kennedy has previously served as interim general manager and will assume her new role March 1.

47-year-old was taken to the nursing station Feb. 19 with injuries believed to have resulted from an assault.

Money will be used to build a pavilion for community gatherings in Norway House Cree Nation and for community centre and band hall renovations in Brochet.

“Our First Nation citizens deserve to feel safe in their homes and in their nations,” says AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick.

31-year-old from Cross Lake charged with aggravated assault after Feb. 15 stabbing in Thompson.

Eugene Shin, Tyler Hunt, Anne Kenny Thompson and Vicki Phillips elected as councillors 

A Feb. 14 press release highlighted three incidents, two in the last two months, in which police responding to calls in the remote Northern Manitoba First Nation were punched, kicked or pushed by groups of adults and youths.