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• Drilling difficulties
  Oil and Gas - Imagine 37 oil wells nearly 2,240 metres under the seafloor being sucked dry by long spindly pipes off the coast of Brazil. Or ...
• Premier talks about power in New York
  Premier Danny Williams is making good on his promise to make things difficult for Hydro-Quebec. On Monday, Williams told a room full of New ...
• 'I'm not a junkie'
  When Lisa finally gets to visit a doctor's office, she doesn't want to feel like a criminal. The energetic, well-spoken, 31-year-old, mother of ...
• Silver soiree
  Gerry Squires, one of this province's most celebrated artists, says he knows what it's like to be a young struggling artist starting out. "I'm ...
• Part 3: Looking back, and ahead
  In Newfoundland and Labrador, there are two main ways to come off opiod drugs if you're hooked - taking methadone or going cold turkey. Barry ...
• Part 2: The controversy
  Even though he takes methadone every day, J.J. says he's been clean for more than two years. And most treatment programs would agree with that ...
• Part 1: The problem
  First in a three-part series examining the effectiveness of the province's methadone treatment program for drug addictions The first time J.J. ...
• No federal cash for new pen
  Federal dollars won't go into the construction of a new prison in this province, despite Ottawa doubling its budget for prison construction and ...
• 'It's all we have'
  Newly minted Justice Minister Felix Collins says we're stuck with the prison we have. Her Majesty's Penitentiary (HMP), which he describes as a ...
• State of disgrace
  John Stanley lay in a hospital bed for two weeks after his spleen was removed, with two correctional officers standing guard. Under normal ...
• Church confirms complaint
  Catholic priest Kevin Molloy insists he was shocked to hear that retired bishop Raymond Lahey has been charged in a child pornography case, ...
• Seeing things
  Politics - Whether or not they're ultimately elected, many of the candidates vying for council seats in St. John's can already see themselves ...
• And then there were four
  Trying to get an at-large council seat in the St. John's city council election this fall will be a bit like playing a game of musical chairs with ...
• Paradise mayoralty debate boils over on fire hall,...
  It wasn't hell, but Wednesday night's mayoral debate wasn't exactly Paradise, either. Career politician Ralph Wiseman opened the CBC-hosted ...
• Where rural and urban collide
  Voters in Conception Bay South might be experiencing dÉjÀ vu as they head into this municipal election. Not only are all the incumbents running ...
• Price freeze ends
  Some residents of southern Lab-rador are feeling left out in the cold by a decision to eliminate a price freeze on oil products this winter. ...
• Men who would be mayor argue over recycling
  While the issues raised at the third St. John's mayoral debate may have been rehashed, what was different was the level of needling by rookie ...
• Fo' shizzle: Snoop Dogg plays Mile One
  Memorial University's back to school bash, was celebrated in true Doggy Style. The Snoop Dogg concert at Mile One Stadium Saturday night was ...
• Election tech
  Information on municipal candidates in the St. John's metro area is just a double click away - well, for several candidates anyway. Whether ...
• Not a joint venture
  Candidates in St. John's have varying views about amalgamation, but early winners in other communities aren't as excited about the idea. Mount ...
• Great divide
  Amalgamation is about unity, but when polled on the question candidates in the St. John's race seemed to be divided on the issue. The survey ...
• Paradise mayor has challenger
  Just five hours before nominations closed in the Town of Paradise, Ralph Wiseman got some competition. Wiseman was running uncontested until ...
• Drug case ends in guilty pleas
  Three men at the centre of one of the biggest drug busts in this province's history have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to traffic ...
• Family trait
  The first time David Pike realized he wanted to know about his family's history was when he was assigned to draw a family tree in the fifth ...
• Digging into the past
  Standing on the top of a precipice that is the Lady's Lookout on Signal Hill, through the fog you can almost see two worlds. Looking down into ...
• Do unto your employees as you would have them do to...
  Sean Durfy wears jeans to work, not ties. The president and CEO of WestJet airlines, says the jeans, huge black belt buckle and leather jacket ...
• Eastern Health to start doing controversial breast...
  The medical test at the centre of the biggest health-care scandal in this province's history will be performed again this fall at Eastern Health ...
• School can be cruel
  Susan Rose experienced plenty of discrimination in junior high school. After all, she was a gay teacher. And after quitting her job in 2006 ...
• Couple offered home care
  An 80-year-old man who enlisted the help of the media in a battle to get subsidized home care has been promised someone will be there to help ...
• Players aim to restructure fishery
  If this province's fishing industry isn't restructured by today's players, it will restructure itself, they say. And if that means "shaming" the ...