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• The straight dope
  In his Torbay home, Mike Dawe slides open an end-table drawer, pulls out a Mason jar and rolls a joint. There are no additives like tobacco. The ...
• RNC child exploitation unit receives boost
  Budget 2012 added nearly $400,000 to the Internet child exploitation unit at the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) Tuesday.The increased ...
• Seniors get break
  Seniors in the province are getting a break on their vehicle permits and drivers’ licences. And for those older than 65 who like to hunt and ...
• Jones lauds breast cancer screening announcement
  Although in Opposition, Liberal MHA Yvonne Jones was beaming at Budget 2012 Tuesday.Jones, a breast cancer survivor, was happy the Tory ...
• No new Waterford for years
  There will not be a new Waterford Hospital for five to seven years, Eastern Health CEO Vickie Kaminski said Tuesday after the province released ...
• Fringe food
  Its facial expressions looks rather smiley, its wings are expansive and apparently quite tasty, but many people likely know little of the skate ...
• Methadone should be last resort: Mary Walsh
  Methadone should be a last choice for treating young addicts, says actress Mary Walsh. Walsh is a member of the provincial health minister’s ...
• Meet Bell Island's boy wonder
  When Donovan Taplin was five or six years old, his grandmother told him he'd make it big one day. "I don't know what she would say at all because ...
• ‘It’s a killer drug, man’
  Matthew MacDonald can always get to Day 3 and just once he made it to Day 4, but days 5, 6 and 7 remain an elusive dream.MacDonald, 23, is ...
• Opposition calls on government to heed report on...
  A national report on hospital performance is disappointing when it comes to this province's acute care facilities, say the NDP and Liberals. "The ...
• National health info gatherer rates hospitals
  The largest hospital in the province falls below the national performance range for patients who die after major surgery and strokes, according ...
• Inmate reports meds altered
  A former prison guard sent to Her Majesty’s Penitentiary (HMP) with an order regarding his mental health treatment has had his medications ...
• Family called 911 from Miller Centre
  A woman who called 911 to get help for her mother last year while the senior was a patient at the Miller Centre in St. John’s is still waiting ...
• Longtime urologist retires
  Another urologist has left the province. Dr. Leoncio Best’s office in St. John’s has been informing patients he has retired.Best said he’s been ...
• Eastern Health CEO defends monitors
  While Eastern Health CE0 Vickie Kaminski defended a new system of patient monitors Tuesday by attributing much of the problem to nurses’ ...
• Update: Kaminski says time to put heart monitor...
  Vickie Kaminski, President and CEO of Eastern Health, said today it’s time to put the issue of concerns over cardiac monitors at the Health ...
• Tightened security measures coming to George Street
  Security measures on George Street are going to get tighter. The George Street Association was in Las Vegas this week investigating systems, ...
• Massive coyote stirring widespread debate
  The story of the 82-pound coyote not only has this province and the Internet buzzing, but wildlife watchers across the country are talking about ...
• Province tests DNA of 82-pound coyote
  Update: Joe Fleming was astonished when he saw huge coyote tracks on the Bonavista Peninsula two months ago, but he was even more stunned when he ...
• Ferries to be upgraded for new sewage regulations
  The Beaumont Hamel and other ferries serving provincial routes won’t meet new marine sewage regulations for ships coming into effect this ...
• Man posts video of own arrest for impaired driving
  A Spaniard’s Bay man has posted a video to YouTube depicting him being arrested for allegedly operating his vehicle while impaired. Chris ...
• MUN prof testifies at U.S. Congress
  Ross Klein has testified before the U.S. government twice before on the cruise ship industry, but Thursday he was back again with the Costa ...
• A place of their own
  Gary Gibbons shakes his head when his support worker asks him what would happen if he couldn’t come to the Longside Club. “My dear, that would ...
• Denied access to prisons
  The NDP critic for justice said she was shut out of two prisons during a recent trip across the province.St. John’s Centre MHA Gerry Rogers said ...
• Former inmate warns of volatility behind bars
  Robert Maher, a recovering drug addict and convicted fraudster now in a west coast halfway house, says Justice officials are risking a riot at ...
• Eastern Health puts call out for monument to breast...
  Elizabeth Finlayson had a new dress bought for her grandson’s wedding in Ontario. But as her family gathered at the September event, they could ...
• Marystown lobby group wants shipyard report released
  The Marystown Shipyard Families Alliance is fed up with delays in releasing a report on cancers among shipyard workers. The report was ...
• Rolling pins, goggles — some of the items on...
  When the provincial government has spent $59,580 on a Lullaby Blankie, you gotta ask the question. Is it just one blankie? Hopefully, in the name ...
• Activist suspects retribution in clearcutting around...
  Eugene Conway can’t help but wonder if his forest preservation protests brought down havoc in his own backyard.Conway’s cabin, which he built in ...
• Government to distribute parenting resource kits...
  It’s unusual, to say the least, to go to see a cabinet minister about a blankie. But The Telegram did just that when it asked Education Minister ...