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The claim owner of a niobium mine in Oka has assembled a team of experts to explore the possibility of restoring the site and building an underground operation, but the company is already facing political resistance in its latest effort to try and bring the valuable metal to market.

A man has been charged in connection with an alleged homicide after a body was found in a hole at The Brothers last month, shocking the community.

Melanie Morrison wishes more people had the chance to meet her little sister Tiffany.                 “She was a ball of energy. She impacted everyone that she knew. She just had that energy, you knew she was there,” Morrison said. “When she was taken, there was a black hole that was left. When her life was taken, there was a spark taken from our family.”

Before Wednesday, Kim Mayo’s back deck was just barely standing. It was slowly coming off the concrete wall of her house, and it moved when anyone walked on it.

The Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB), with the help of Chateauguay’s fire department, fought a house fire in the Route 207/Highway 138 junction area on Tuesday, resulting in the total loss of the residence.

Canada’s first-ever drone first responder took flight this week in Kahnawake, the result of a partnership between the Kahnawake Peacekeepers and drone company Drone360.

Kahnawake, like the whole region, was gutted to learn about the tragic loss of a three-year-old girl, Ava Ciampini, when strong winds carried a bouncy castle into the air at a church picnic in LaSalle two weekends ago.

Community members were incensed to learn that planned maintenance around power lines in the so-called “ecological gift” area of the Pines resulted in the felling of mature pine trees, with leaders suggesting changes are needed to Hydro Quebec’s communications protocol.

The adoption of an urbanization plan passed by Oka Council earlier this month was merely a formality, according to the city’s mayor, but it set off a firestorm online after an unsigned letter circulated in the Village area suggested it had sealed a housing development at the edge of the Pines.

Barry Bonspille, owner of the Golden Star cannabis dispensary, has pleaded not guilty to contempt of court following allegations that he repeatedly violated the safeguard order banning work filling in the shores of the Lake of Two Mountains.