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• Cruise ships and security fencing
  St. John’s Mayor Dennis O’Keefe says cruise ship traffic to the city in 2011 is on schedule to be about the same as last year.According to the ...
• Shot fired in attempted home invasion
  Some people who live in a quiet west-end neighbourhood are unsettled by two incidents within the last week involving guns.According to the Royal ...
• Blind golf pro will show locals how it’s done
  The reigning blind Canadian golf champion will be in St. John’s this weekend to teach a clinic.VISUAL — Visually Impaired Seniors Undertaking ...
• Too much of a good thing?
  Development in St. John’s is an issue that often polarizes members of city council and the public at large.A few weeks ago, The Telegram did a ...
• City may expand Outer Battery parking lot
  The small parking lot in the Outer Battery area of St. John’s could soon be expanded to make it easier for vehicles to turn around at the end of ...
• City to re-examine new ‘no-mow’ policy
  The City of St. John’s public works committee asked staff on Monday to take another look at the city’s new “no-mow” policy only weeks after it ...
• Imagine a world where nobody dies
  Would the world be a better place if everybody stopped dying? Without thinking too hard about that question, you might say yes. But if people ...
• Margaret’s Place residents losing faith, says...
  St. John’s City Council voted 8 - 3 to allow a previously approved seniors condominium to add a fourth floor, despite a lot of opposition from ...
• Credible Can-con
  A friend recently remarked that Canadian TV shows are the little league of broadcasting. I have to admit, I've dismissed our ...
• AG had access: CNLOPB
  The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (CNLOPB) has taken exception to recent comments made by the province’s outgoing ...
• Council votes against heritage recommendations
  St. John's city council voted down two recommendations from its heritage advisory committee Monday, in regards to two developments on ...
• Noseworthy not ruling out politics
  John Noseworthy says his time as the province's auditor general was both rewarding and challenging. On Wednesday, Noseworthy announced on ...
• Judge tells city to vote again
  A judge has ruled St. John’s city council should have waited for all the information to be in about a development in Kilbride before rejecting ...
• Metrobus to stay at Village
  An agreement has been reached to keep Metrobus rolling into the Village Shopping Centre.However, the location where the buses stop may change ...
• Maritimes municipal leaders muse on Muskrat Falls
  The proposed Muskrat Falls hydroelectric development is getting rave reviews from municipal leaders in the Atlantic region. When the Federation ...
• Council approves AHL deal
  The vote was unanimous. On Thursday, St. John’s City Council approved in principle the lease agreement that will bring professional hockey back ...
• Racy posters questioned at council
  Concerns about graphic images advertising downtown strip clubs on utility poles were debated at Monday’s St. John’s city council meeting.Coun. ...
• Beneficial? Or renewed boundary dispute?
  It may benefit this province in some ways, but Quebec’s plan to develop its northern region has some people wondering if an ongoing dispute over ...
• Skateboard, BMX facility a go
  St. John’s city council unanimously approved an indoor skateboard and BMX bike park Monday, despite objections by nearby residents.The park and ...
• Revitalizing the west end of downtown
  The west end of downtown St. John’s has become a hotbed of proposed activity, and could see four new, commercial buildings built within the next ...
• Andrews holds Avalon
  For the second time in two elections, Fabian Manning failed to win over the voters of Avalon. It was a closer race than in 2008, but incumbent ...
• Tory surprise in Labrador
  It looked like the ghost of the Anything But Conservative campaign would continue to haunt Stephen Harper’s party in this province, until a late ...
• Few fireworks at fisheries forum
  There’s nothing like an election to stoke the partisan fires, or so you would think. At a candidates forum Monday evening, hosted by the ...
• Too close to call
  With one week to go before the federal election, a political science professor at Memorial University says a lot can still happen and the race is ...
• Dispute over Torbay development
  A Torbay man says he’s learned the hard way what happens when people don’t pay more attention to what their municipal council is doing.Lee Harvey ...
• Mixed reaction to child care plan
  The minister of child, youth and family services says a new two-year pilot project to develop child care spaces in family homes has the ...
• Lower Churchill focus of feisty debate
  The Conservative candidate for St. John’s South-Mount Pearl put his potential political career on the line over his party’s promise on the Lower ...
• Ignatieff calls for co-operation
  Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says it’s better to create a green energy future together than replay old feuds between prov-inces.After ...
• Pressing the anti-poverty pledge
  The Religious Social Action Coalition is asking all candidates running in the May 2 federal election to pledge to end poverty. The group — made ...
• ‘Loan guarantee or equivalent’
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a room full of friendly supporters Thursday evening that if re-elected, the Conservatives would provide a loan ...