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• Children province's No. 1 priority
  The provincial government has set out its agenda for the coming year with children and families being a major focus. Lt.-Gov. John Crosbie read ...
• Still paying the price
  Gary Hennessey was forced to close his payroll business in August 2007, and later declared bankruptcy, because of a dispute between Eastern ...
• Hennessey's hell
  A St. John's businessman, caught between Eastern Health and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), is still on the hook for hundreds of thousands of ...
• Premier backs Health minister's lab comments
  Premier Danny Williams defended his minister and dismissed comments by the executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association's ...
• Tories take Topsail
  Paul Davis will trade his blue police uniform for a Tory blue suit after cruising to a victory in the Topsail byelection Tuesday night. The ...
• Baird blames the Liberals
  The federal Transportation Minister says the $175 million in this week's budget for Marine Atlantic shows the Stephen Harper government's ...
• Thin gruel for social needs
  Groups representing charities, women and students in this province all agree the federal budget was lacking. Penny Rowe is with the Community ...
• Ottawa staying on the wrong course, MP says
  The Liberal MP for St. John's South-Mount Pearl says there was nothing substantial in the federal budget for seniors, pensions, the unemployed, ...
• Feds miss boat in throne speech: MPs
  The federal minister responsible for Newfoundland and Labrador says people in the province should "sit tight" until today's federal budget to see ...
• 'It's not about the caribou'
  The Deputy Grand Chief of the Labrador Innu isn't supporting the Quebec Innu protest hunt in Labrador last week. "It's not about the caribou," ...
• Cash Job
  Gus Doyle says it's time the province dropped the hammer on the "underground economy" in the construction industry. And he's asking the ...
• One cent more per smoke?
  It's not often a group asks the province to raise taxes. But at pre-budget consultations earlier this month, Kevin Coady of the Newfoundland and ...
• Marine Atlantic a 'toll road,' says MP
  The Liberal MP for Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte says recent comments by Federal Transporta-tion Minister John Baird amount to a promise from ...
• Report slams former advocate
  An independent investigation into the management style of former child and youth advocate Darlene Neville concludes she was rightly fired by the ...
• 'My heart, my health, my choice'
  Premier Danny Williams says he feels better every day as he recovers from heart surgery performed in Florida earlier this month. In a telephone ...
• Squeezed out
  When Genevieve Kennedy decided to take over a personal care home in Holyrood in 1987, she did her homework. She and her recently disabled ...
• Liberals pleased Hibernia South deal signed
  Liberal Kelvin Parsons says Tuesday's announcement that a final deal has been signed to develop the Hibernia South oilfield is positive overall. ...
• Thumbs up all around
  Many business leaders in the province are pleased the provincial government has signed a final agreement to expand the Hibernia oil development ...
• Town suing OCI
  Marystown is suing one of its largest corporate citizens for not paying its taxes. According to court documents, Ocean Choice International (OCI) ...
• Minister blasts 'snotty' letter
  The Telegram has obtained a copy of a letter written by the senior administration of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook to Premier ...
• The bill is in
  The people of the province paid $267,623 to allow former citizens' representative Fraser March the opportunity to state his case. March was ...
• Williams faces weeks of recovery
  Reporters had questions, but deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale was careful not to give too much detail about Premier Danny Williams' impending ...
• Illegal buildings on Crown land not tracked...
  The province's Auditor General (AG) says the lands branch of the Department of Environment isn't doing a good enough job of managing Crown land ...
• PM has praise for construction industry
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in St. John's Friday to address the Newfoundland and Labrador Construction Association. Introduced by Senator ...
• Win, lose by draw?
  Supreme Court Justice Robert Hall has reserved his decision on a constitutional challenge of the results of last fall's mayoral election in ...
• Former House of Assembly bureaucrat Bill Murray...
  The man at the centre of the province's constituency allowance spending scandal pleaded guilty to four of the seven charges against him in ...
• Program cut
  Kelvin Parsons says the Williams government has thrown 15 years of work on an adult alternative justice program out the window, without any ...
• Mountain climber tells business group to aim high
  With a leading Canadian economic strategist, a mountain climber and two provincial cabinet ministers, the speakers at this year's St. John's ...
• Good news for Lower Churchill, premier says
  Premier Danny Williams suggested Tuesday afternoon some of the barriers facing the Lower Churchill hydroelectric project are starting to crumble. ...
• Showing the evidence
  Bags of money, drugs, weapons and other items were spread out on a long table at the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) Headquarters in St. ...