Local News

The provincial government has shot down a plan by non-profit Northern Detox Programs Inc. to establish a non-medical detox at the old Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM) Polaris Building B facility at 23 Nickel Rd.

Sets up rematch against Niki Ashton

More than 200 Steelworkers at Vale Inco's Voisey's Bay nickel mine in northern Labrador struck the company at midnight Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT) Aug. 1. Neither the company nor union expected the strike to be averted.

A 59-year-old man from Winnipeg is dead after a single vehicle roll over accident which took place on Wuskwatim Dam Road. On July 30 at 10:30 p.m.

The Thompson RCMP detachment is encouraging residents of the City of Thompson to be extra diligent when it comes to ensuring their vehicles are locked. Sgt.

A technician replaces a light bulb in a lamppost on Assiniboine Place July 16.

A strike by engineers and yardmasters belonging to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) against Via Rail ended after 48 hours Sunday and passenger trains across the country began rolling again.

The leader of Manitoba's Liberal party swung through Thompson July 22 as part of his 2009 Northern community tour and says that health care is one of the major themes that came up repeatedly.

The Manitoba Arts Network has announced that the Hudson Bay Company's (HCB) People's Choice Award winner for the 7th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show as Thompson's own Teresa Burrows.

Thompson RCMP were dispatched after a report July 25 at 7:20 a.m. of a youth trying to force entry to a residence on Ospwagon Drive in the Old Burntwood Trailer Court, says Sgt. Rob Collen, media spokesman for the detachment.