David Breau, 22, arrested today in St. John’s in connection with a stabbing near Mile One Centre in October, will have a bail hearing on Monday.
Breau has been charged with aggravated ...  (more)  06/11/09 4:26 PM  

	A flight suit is seen in this file photo at the Marine Institute's Offshore Safety and Survival Cent... »

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Robert Decker says he’ll never work offshore again, but those who do should have the right to do it safely.
“Training to escape from a crashed helicopter is important, having go...  (more)  06/11/09 8:42 AM  

	A wild caribou roams the tundra near The Meadowbank Gold Mine located in Nunavut. - Photo by The Can... »

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Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one outfitter determined to expose what he calls a fraud.

"This is a deliberate hoax, not good science," writes John Andre, owner of Montana-based Shoshone Wilderness Adventures, which operates commercial hunts in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories, northeast of Yellowknife.

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It's time for round two, and this time, the venue will be the district of Terra Nova. What's interesting is whether the ruling Conservatives change their fight plan.

Wednesday, Premier Danny Williams announced the date of a byelection to fill the seat that former health minister Paul Oram left in early October. The byelection will be held on Nov. 26, one day shy of a month after the Williams Conservatives lost the byelection in the district of The Straits-White Bay North.

	Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale gives the opening address at the Mineral Resources Revie... »

Drops in prices and in the production of iron ore, nickel and other metals have left the province's mining industry worth half of what it used to be.

The provincial government's preliminary figures set the gross value of mineral shipments at nearly $2 billion compared to last year's $4.6 billion.

	Memorial University Sea Hawks men's basketball assistant coach Evan Constantine uses an exercise bal... »

Memorial University men's basketball coach Peter Benoite has higher expectations for his team in his second year at the helm of the Sea-Hawks.

And, pragmatically speaking, after a 3-17 season in 2008-09 and finishing seventh in the eight-team AUS men's basketball conference, there's really no place to go but up.

Does anyone still read Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women?" No need to do it right now, though. A musical incarnation of the nineteenth-century best-seller is currently viewable on stage at Holy Heart Theatre. The opening night audience was as large as I have seen in a goodly time. Could this be the Tina Maddigan-Broadway effect?

The show tells the stories of four sisters: sensible and responsible Meg, who works as a governess, tranquil but ill-fated Beth, pretty Amy, who puts on airs, and betrousered tomboy Jo, a budding writer and alter ego of the author herself. Together with their fond and sagacious mother, the siblings struggle to maintain a respectable, middle-class lifestyle while their absent father is serving as chaplain in the Union army during the American civil war. No Christmas presents for the girls this year.

	Left, David Francey, right, Craig Werth. — Submitted photos

David Francey has an affinity for Newfoundland. And St. John's, in particular, it seems, has an affinity for him.

The Scottish-born Canadian singer and songwriter, in his mid-50s, has spent the better part of his life doing hard labour.

But an innocent and somewhat sequestered pursuit of music through poetry, or vice versa some might say, led him to record "Torn Screen Door" in 1999.

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It's strange how some things can be utterly misunderstood or misinterpreted while they're happening, and only become clear years later.

Stranger still is that sometimes, for some people, the meaning of events becomes even murkier with the passage of time.

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Did you know St. John's city councillors received a one per cent pay increase on Oct. 12?

This increase was originally tabled by council at the April 13, 2009 meeting when it approved a two per cent salary increase effective Oct. 13, 2008 and the above increase scheduled for this year.

Might have said something

In the spirit of openness and transparency, council should have announced receipt of this latest increase at their Oct. 12 council meeting.

November can be a tough month.  With leaves disappearing from trees, the air getting colder, and daylight hours getting shorter many of us are just about due for a bit of a “pick-me-up&r...  (more)  02/11/09 11:07 AM