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• Record sitting?
  Some have called this past session of the House of Assembly a marathon sitting for the current provincial government. On Thursday of last week, ...
• Liberal leader meets with Jackson's Arm workers
  Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones was in Jackson's Arm, White Bay Friday to meet with town officials and plant workers about the shrimp plant in the ...
• Small care homes in trouble
  She's not giving up yet, but personal care home owner Genevieve Kennedy doesn't know how much longer she can keep her business afloat. Kennedy ...
• Innovation key to future
  The president and CEO of General Electric (GE) Canada says growth in the post-recession world has to be driven by the innovation of companies. ...
• 'Fortune favours the bold'
  The governor of the Bank of Canada says now is not the time to sit back and wait for the economy to improve. "The theme of my remarks is about ...
• Liberals surge with Lower Churchill questions
  Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones says it's difficult to follow the government's logic on the Lower Churchill project. Jones continued to raise ...
• NDP continues questioning on spill preparedness
  NDP Leader Lorraine Michael continues to press the government on issues around oil spills. In the House of Assembly Monday, she accused the ...
• Bell Island loses both ferries
  While the government and Liberal Opposition played the blame game in the House of Assembly Tuesday, Wabana Mayor Gary Gosine said the bottom line ...
• Speed up MOU process: FFAW, ASP
  The closure of the shrimp plant in Jackson's Arm has led to the Liberal Opposition and both sides of the fishing industry calling on the province ...
• Lower Churchill dominates question period
  Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones told reporters Monday it will be years before the proposed Lower Churchill project will be developed. And Premier ...
• Fisheries issues raised in House
  Fisheries Minister Clyde Jackman told the House of Assembly Thursday that if both sides of the fishery keep their commitments, a marketing ...
• Amended NDP bill on VLTs passes
  NDP Leader Lorraine Michael says government amendments to her private member's bill on video lottery terminals (VLTs) covers up the real issue ...
• German company tours mill site
  An unnamed German pulp and paper company toured the former AbitibiBowater mill in Grand Falls-Windsor last week and has expressed interest in ...
• Lawsuit aims to block air ambulance move
  The Town of St. Anthony, the local chamber of commerce and a community group have launched a court challenge to try to keep the air ambulance ...
• Quota reduction slammed
  A decision by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to reduce shrimp quotas isn't going over well with politicians from this ...
• Access denied
  Quebec's energy regulator has denied one of this province's applications for access to its transmission grid. The province was looking for ...
• What's the rush? Liberals ask
  Health Minister Jerome Kennedy has confirmed the province's air ambulance currently based in St. Anthony will move to Happy Valley-Goose Bay May ...
• The guest in the gallery
  Chester Harris has been following provincial politics for 60 years. This week, before a session of the House of Assembly, the 85-year-old ...
• Premier goes to Ottawa to meet PM, ministers
  Premier Danny Williams travelled to Ottawa Tuesday to meet with a number of federal cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. When ...
• CNA Qatar errors cost $5M
  Taxpayers in this province are on the hook for an estimated $5 million after several employees at the College of the North Atlantic's Qatar ...
• Hundreds volunteer for Junos
  A vacant downtown office was alive again this week, as it was transformed into the volunteer centre for the Juno week celebrations. An estimated ...
• Forty boxes of evidence
  A St. John's man caught in a dispute between the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Eastern Health made his first court appearance Wednesday to face ...
• Only 11 left
  Roy Ash remembers April 14, 1940 as a cold but sunny Sunday. It was the day he and about 400 other young Newfoundland men marched from the ...
• From little ditty to opus
  When Steve Edwards started Music City 13 years ago, it was a small music store on Blackmarsh Road in St. John's. "When we first started, I had ...
• Hyperbaric services to resume Monday
  Dr. Ken LeDez was almost beaming as he demonstrated one of Eastern Health's new monoplace - or single person - hyperbaric chambers for reporters ...
• Immigration minister promotes refugee reforms
  Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was in St. John's Monday to begin a cross-Canada tour to promote proposed changes to the refugee system ...
• Dunville man not allowed in to hear budget
  Jeremiah Perry drove in from Dunville, Placentia Bay, Monday to hear Finance Minister Tom Marshall deliver his budget speech. Perry has done ...
• Thumbs down to budget: Opposition
  Yvonne Jones says the provincial budget has shown her two widening gaps. "The rural-urban divide is even greater than it was. The gaps between ...
• Shifting fortunes
  It's tradition for a finance minister to buy a new pair of shoes for budget day. This year, the footwear Tom Marshall bought wasn't for wearing, ...
• Arbitration a no go: Williams
  Negotiations between the province and its doctors, which appear to be in limbo, came up in the House of Assembly Tuesday. Liberal Leader Yvonne ...