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• Newfoundland principals get national awards
  Two school principals from Newfoundland and Labrador will be honoured next month in a special ceremony in Toronto. These exceptional educators ...
• Problems more than skin deep
  According to the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance, Newfoundland and Labrador has failed to provide the level of dermatology care required to meet ...
• Shafia family guilty of 1st-degree murder
  THE CANADIAN PRESSKINGSTON, Ont. — Three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family have been found guilty of killing three daughters and a ...
• Youth taken to hospital following assault
  The RNC was called to Newfoundland Drive in St. John's overnight on Saturday after receiving reports of a young man with serious injuries. They ...
• Trail groomer sinks in Labrador
  The RCMP in Happy Valley - Goose Bay is reporting that a trail grooming machine has gone through the ice of the Terrington Basin and that ...
• Breaking ground
  It’s just past 3 p.m. Tuesday and The Telegram Jeep is bobbing and weaving its way through alarmingly deep snow and ice on a section of Redmond’s ...
• MUN scientists develop system to measure allergens...
  Scientists at Memorial University have developed a system to accurately detect the airborne particles that cause fish plant workers to develop ...
• RCMP make arrest in Trinity, Bonavista Bay, homicide
  The RCMP have arrested a man from Gambo in connection with the death of a man from Trinity, Bonavista Bay. Ivan Curtis King, 57, was arrested on ...
• Homebuilders upset with infrastructure fee in Paradise
  John Roberts is ticked off. For more than 20 years he has been building homes with his construction company, The Trimmer Inc. He’d thought he’d ...
• Snowmobiler dies near Bide Arm
  A man from Bide Arm on the Great Northern Peninsula is dead following a snowmobile collision near that community. The man, who police have ...
• RNC negotiator talks man down from roof
  The RNC had to talk a man down from the roof of his home Saturday evening. According to police, the incident is connected to some kind of ...
• Updated: RCMP investigate possible homicide in...
  The RCMP is keeping quiet about a homicide investigation underway in the small Bonavista Bay community of Trinity. A spokesman for the police ...
• Updated: Man hit by car while trying to help...
  Two pedestrians were injured in separate collisions only minutes apart in downtown St. John's Friday evening. Witnesses say that a man was hit by ...
• RNC looking for two women involved in robbery
  The RNC is asking for the public’s help in its investigation of an armed robbery in Conception Bay South early Wednesday morning. Two women, one ...
• Union leader says workers being sold out
  It was an event filled with passionate speeches and heartfelt commentary on an issue that strikes a sensitive nerve in this province — so it was ...
• Clinging to hope fish plant will reopen
  To the average newspaper reader the coverage of the protest at Ocean Choice International’s (OCI) offices is likely an interesting read to go ...
• Damage will take time to repair: city
  Only a few months after the City of St. John’s finished working on the water main running underneath Portugal Cove Road, work crews were ripping ...
• Ticket issued despite permit to park in wheelchair...
  Brian Janes wants an apology from the City of St. John’s. The city resident is still angry about a parking ticket he got in November for being ...
• Newfoundland artist has Twitter account hijacked
  Newfoundland song-stress Tara Oram had her Twitter account — and possibly her personal life — compromised on Wednesday. For about a half hour ...
• RCMP find drugs stacked in chip tubes
  Chips are apparently not all you can find in a tube of Pringles. RCMP from Hopedale in Labrador found about half a kilogram of marijuana stacked ...
• Happy birthday, Mr. Crime
  As his wife led him down the confined and dimly lit corridor of the St. John’s Delta Hotel Mike Critch could tell something was up. He’d been led ...
• UPDATE: Woman charged with abandoning kittens
  Bonavista RCMP has released more information about two kittens that were rescued by officers on Thursday. Police now say they intend to charge
• One person dead after crash near Campbellton
  A woman from Campbellton has died in a single vehicle crash just outside that community. At about 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday Lewisporte RCMP got a ...
• Multi-vehicle crash on Pitts Memorial Drive
  Emergency crews are on scene of a car crash involving at least eight vehicles on Pitts Memorial Drive. The crash occurred around 4:15 p.m. today ...
• UPDATED: Christmas Eve fire kills two
  Tragedy has struck the small community of Pilley's Island on the north shore. Two people are dead following a Christmas Eve fire at a home on ...
• Simplifying Christmas
  "Christmas ... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." - Freya Stark (1893-1993), British ...
• Cost of Christmas dinner rising
  It’s no secret the holidays are an expensive time of year. There are the presents, the extra bills and the food. Ah, the food. Turkey, salt beef, ...
• Rash of fires not connected: RCMP
  The RCMP from the Trepassey detachment on the Southern Avalon is investigating yet another fire — the fourth in 60 days.This time it was Our Lady ...
• ‘That bus is her life’
  It’s doubtful there’s anyone on Bell Island with a ride as sweet as Nichole Lahey’s. The 21-year-old Wabana resident sports around the community ...
• Road fatalities tallied for the year
  Every year at about this time RCMP Sgt. Randy Pack compiles a list of roadway fatalities in the province for the year so far.It’s not a fun job, ...