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• Mile One Centre playing catchup with repairs
  By Bonnie BelecThe TelegramMile One Centre is beginning to show its age. ...
• Expensive real estate - New parking spaces will cost...
  The extra 461 public parking spaces the City of St. John’s will create in the downtown core will cost $8 million or $17,353 per parking ...
• Longtime vendor longs for parking spot
  Every day it’s getting more difficult for Heidi Taylor to do her job. She sells flippers from the back of her truck this time of year, halibut in ...
• City enjoying good times
  A St. John’s councillor finds it hard to contain his pride when he discusses the prosperity the region is experiencing. Armed with the latest ...
• Seniors housing gets a financial boost
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corp. (NLHC) has committed $400,000 to a private developer to build affordable housing for seniors in Mount ...
• Manor loses application for restaurant
  A historic bed and breakfast on Waterford Bridge Road won’t expand its operation to include a restaurant. Waterford Manor had applied to the City ...
• Parents say transformer shouldn’t be on playground
  The field at Bishop Feild School just got a little smaller. After years of community fundraising, seeding, fertilizing and nurturing the green ...
• St. John’s businessman answers the call
  The public has asked and St. John’s businessman Ron Ellsworth has answered.The longtime community volunteer put an end to rumours Wednesday he ...
• Harbour front fence roundup
  The CEO of the St. John’s Port Authority may have been feeling a little corralled Thursday as the song “Don’t Fence Me In” enveloped the room ...
• Public safety lost in debate
  If someone was injured or killed on the apron of the St. John’s harbourfront, the port authority would be held accountable, and this is one of ...
• Bidgood family donates more money to finish park
  When Roger Bidgood began selling cod heads to farmers in Goulds at the age of 10 he probably didn’t realize what impact his family would one day ...
• Author spreads anti-bullying message
  Forty children singing in harmony led by a woman strumming a pink ukulele may sound like the opening act for an elementary school talent show. ...
• Council addresses NDP rumours
  Speculation that an orange wave is moving towards St. John's City Hall has been swirling for months and as the municipal election approaches the ...
• Staff continues to dig city out of snow piles
  The streets of St. John’s are widened and the city’s sidewalk-clearing program is in full force, but Paul Mackey is the first to admit there’s ...
• Towns looking for government funds
  For the past five years the mayor of Bay Bulls has asked the provincial government for the same thing, and every year he's left standing on the ...
• Mount Pearl residents will get lower mill rate next...
  The owner of an average home in Mount Pearl will pay about an extra $75 a year in property tax next year, according to the city’s 2013 budget ...
• Mount Pearl reducing property tax
  The City of Mount Pearl has just announced it is reducing property tax by more than two mills. While deputy mayor Jim Locke said the cost of ...
• Fence protesters shut down city council meeting
  It was hard for people to contain their emotions Monday during debate on the proposal to construct a security fence on the harbourfront at the ...
• Transport Canada ducks fence issue
  Sean Hanrahan sounds exasperated about plans for theSt. John’s harbourfront security fence and Transport Canada’s recent statements.Not only has ...
• UPDATED: Water flowing at Bay Bulls plant
  The City of St. John's announced Saturday morning that water levels in the region's reservoirs have returned to normal. The system had time to ...
• Wood chipper on its way to clean up Leslie debris
  By the time the debris from tropical storm Leslie is cleaned up in the city of St. John’s, the city’s three dropoff sites may well be filled with ...
• City changing regulations to accommodate hotel
  The Marriott Hotel is moving on up — 19.8 metres to be exact.St. John’s City council voted Monday to approve a revised design by Harbour View ...
• Committee member says he’s hopeful homelessness...
  More than 10 years and $18 million later the St. John’s Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness (CAB) has no intentions of slowing down ...
• Mayor wants bandstand saved
  Whether their memories are clear or cloudy, everyone who ever hung out around the Bannerman Park bandstand has them, and St. John’s Mayor Dennis ...
• Kenmount Road discussion gives councillor road rage
  A proposal to build a new hotel on Kenmount Road erupted into a full-blown discussion at a St. John’s council meeting Monday evening about ...
• Mayors discuss the challenges of growing cities
  Even cities known as energy hubs have needs, say some of the mayors involved in the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP). They say they need ...
• Council rejects Bell cellphone tower
  People living in the Merrymeeting Road area of St. John’s who are opposed to the installation of a 20-metre telecommunications tower in their ...
• Robo-arm ready to clean up city streets
  It won’t be much longer before Dean Butler never has to handle another dirty, stinky, possibly dangerous bag of garbage again, unless it’s his ...
• Water, water everywhere
  By the time a water main break is fixed on Harbour Drive in St. John’s, millions of gallons of drinking water will have ended up in the harbour. ...
• C.B.S. imposes a levy for some new homes
  It all runs down hill and at the bottom of this road is the home buyer. Conception Bay South needs a bigger sewer line to accommodate development ...