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• Burton Winters story told through access to...
  A retired search and rescue co-ordinator says it’s ironic the province is looking to tighten access to information laws that helped the public ...
• Burton Winters story told through access to...
  A group calling on the provincial government to hold an inquiry to examine the death of Burton Winters says access to information has played a ...
• Premier questions timing of MP’s mill talk
  Premier Kathy Dunderdale is questioning the value of a presentation made Sunday evening by Humber MP Gerry Byrne concerning the viability of ...
• Women hope to form new YWCA
  A past-president of the YWCA in St. John’s is among a group of women who hopes the organization has a future in the city if the Northeast Avalon ...
• Foster care changes announced
  Child, Youth and Family Services Minister Charlene Johnson received a standing ovation from attendees of a conference focused on foster care, ...
• Eastern Health workers protest cuts
  Signs firmly gripped and shouting slogans with gusto, members of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) ...
• Lighthouse petitions are in
  While not all petitions expected from Newfoundland and Labrador have been processed, it appears there will be plenty of local lighthouses in the ...
• Leased land not fit for unpaved parking: city
  A St. John’s resident thinks a piece of land that could accommodate 70 parked vehicles should be used for that purpose, and says the City of St. ...
• Teacher allocations down for next school year
  Looking to next fall and a further decline in the number of students attending school across Newfoundland and Labrador, the provincial government ...
• N.L. group builds maternity hospital in Kenya
  A non-profit organization based in St. John’s hopes the completion of a new 20-bed hospital in Kenya will help lower the risk of maternal death ...
• Woman granted wish of helicopter ride
  “It was my ‘bucket jump,’ I called it,” laughed 98-year-old Victoria Badcock, speaking over the phone from her home in St. John’s. “It’s the last ...
• Cabinet forms committee to respond to plant closures
  Provincial cabinet ministers have united to form a ministerial committee focused on communities affected by downturns in the fishing sector.The ...
• C.B.S. Sally Ann Thrift Store to close
  The future of the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Conception Bay South is in doubt following news made public Wednesday that the lease for its ...
• Streets feel the heat
  Proposed changes to downtown parking regulations in St. John’s received plenty of criticism at a public meeting Tuesday evening at city hall.The ...
• Town will feel the pinch when plant closes
  Jerry Pike has been operating businesses in Burin with his brother Harvey for 28 years and the people who work at the High Liner Foods fish plant ...
• Where to make cuts
  The president of Memorial University is adamant the recent provincial budget was good for post-secondary education.“In a year of constraints, it ...
• Desperately seeking shelter
  The demographic needs of Newfoundland and Labrador when it comes to housing are among the greater challenges facing the Newfoundland and Labrador ...
• Penashue stands behind sub-centre closure
  If he could turn back time, it appears Labrador MP Peter Penashue would not attempt to change the federal government's mind in closing the Marine ...
• Penashue plugs EU trade
  Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue joined a group of provincial business leaders to make one point clear - a free trade agreement ...
• Youth experience homelessness
  The nine youth who have spent the last few nights in downtown St. John’s huddled together in sleeping bags to stay warm are trying to understand ...
• Public sees strengths, weaknesses in budget
  On Monday, The Telegram spoke to people with varying backgrounds to ask what they were looking for in the provincial budget.With the unveiling of ...
• Wanted: rental units
  It has been approximately 30 years since a new privately built apartment building with rental units has graced St. John’s, according to the ...
• Titanic remembered
  Performing familiar songs that largely delighted the people who attended an event to remember the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS ...
• Wildlife enforcement comes under fire
  A retired federal fisheries officer is taking the Department of Justice to task over what he calls instances of improper conduct by fish and ...
• Thoughts for your penny?
  This fall, production of the Canadian penny will cease to be, as was announced recently in the 2012 federal budget. For Samantha Murray, a Grade ...
• Congo family hopes to reunite in Newfoundland and...
  For a number of years, they did not know if she was dead or alive. Now, two siblings who came to Newfoundland from Africa in 2009 as refugees ...
• Igor damage still evident in places
  A year and a half after hurricane Igor caused widespread damage to the eastern half of Newfoundland, the provincial government is preparing to ...
• Bottlenose whale may be at risk
  Evidence suggests the northern bottlenose whale population has declined from 40 year ago, when whaling efforts last took place in the Baffin ...
• SOPAC disputes minister's remarks on moose population
  The environment minister's recent comment that the moose population on the Avalon Peninsula is "frighteningly low" does not sit well with the ...
• Family and friends of Sudanese man in N.L. live in...
  Living in St. John’s, Wad-Alnuba (not his real name) has a regular job and has access to food to feed his family. He is free to move as he may ...