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• A Chilling climb
  No matter the risk and the prevailing wisdom against doing something, you can be sure there's someone out there willing to try. This spring, six ...
• Rogue wave in Middle Cove
  An evening of bonfires and fun on the beach in Middle Cove was disrupted Sunday when a rogue wave washed ashore, taking several people off their ...
• Positive outlook boosting car sales
  Toyota Plaza had its best sales year ever last year. And this year is looking far better. Car and light truck sales at the dealership are up 29 ...
• Change is schools' opening theme Teachers' agreement...
  With changes underway to improve special needs programs and class sizes, not to mention labour negotiations around the corner, 2008-2009 could ...
• PM's wife likes Gros Morne play
  The cast of the play "Tempting Providence" had an unexpected high-profile Canadian in its audience two weeks ago. Prime Minister Stephen ...
• Guns Galore
  If the federal government's numbers are right, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are Canada's most heavily armed citizens, but also its least ...
• Board adjusts fuel prices
  Drivers will have noticed that the price of gas climbed by more than a cent today. Gasoline prices around the province rose by 1.2 or 1.3 cents ...
• Harvest may expand Come By Chance refinery
  The owner of the Come By Chance oil refinery says it is considering a $2-billion expansion to its operations. Calgary-based Harvest Energy, ...
• Quality of care at stake?
  A central Newfoundland doctor thinks Western Health's hiring of a lone obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) at the Stephenville hospital is a ...
• Nature's wrath
  Thursday was supposed to mark the beginning of Gambo's annual Smallwood Days Festival. It was not to be. Each year's festival features ...
• Rolling to the finish
  When 40-year-old Steve Hennessey decided nine weeks ago that he wanted to run the Tely 10 for the first time, he had no idea video of him ...
• MUN remains mum on search for new president
  Nearly seven months after Memorial University president Axel Meisen left the post prematurely to take up a job in Alberta, the institution ...
• A decade of controversy
  When his book "The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923" came out 10 years ago, historian and St. John's native Peter ...
• Bean boom brewing
  There's a black liquid boom going on in St. John's, and it's got nothing to do with oil. Well, that's not entirely true. The boom might actually ...
• Motorcycle sales rev up
  For Darryl Young, there's something indescribable about being on a motorcycle, alone on an open road. "You get out there on the road and there's ...
• ATV retailers tired out
  The city's ATV dealers are nearing wit's end. For years, they have had to deal with the headaches associated with growing mounds of ATV tires on ...
• Suffering through seizures
  Sitting in the living room of his home in St. John's, 17-year-old Joey Callanan remembers the toll epileptic seizures took on his education. His ...
• Companies hope to hop on potash bandwagon
  Business - Newfoundland and Labrador may soon become Canada's third province with a significant potash industry. The St. George's Basin on the ...
• New arts magazine boost local talent
  Culture - The latest addition to the St. John's arts media scene is a family affair. Sleeveen Magazine, a 36-page arts magazine launched in ...
• Sweet success
  Dr. Jonathan O'Dea owes his 2008 Arts and Letters Award to a caramel apple in a store in St. Petersburg, Fla. That, and a lot of talent. O'Dea, a ...
• Breast Cancer survivor says womens stores have a lot...
  During a recent trip to the Avalon Mall with her 14-year-old daughter, it dawned on Leslie Candow that she was no longer part of a market she had ...
• CEOs put construction safety above all: group
  As the CEO of the Newfoundland and Labrador Construction Safety Association (NLCSA), it's safe to say Jackie Manuel understands workplace safety. ...
• Oil and gas. Refining corporation, union reach...
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Refining Corp. and the council representing 16 labour unions signed a tentative agreement Thursday, moving one step ...
• Hyperactive hyberbarics
  The room in Memorial University's Medical School that houses the province's four hyperbaric chambers has been busier than usual this winter. ...
• A close call
  Two men survived a single-engine plane crash in a wooded area near the Clarenville airstrip Wednesday night. Pilot Gerry Duffitt and passenger ...
• Schools under siege
  Bishop Edward Feild might well be chagrined if he was alive today. Walk around the back of the Gothic-style elementary school on Bond Street that ...
• Copper capers
  Dominion Recycling president Derm Power, whose company specializes in recycling non-ferrous metals, has had to increase security to safeguard the ...
• Box office blues
  Talk to theatre owners around the province and the message is clear now is not the time to open a theatre in rural Newfoundland. Burin Cinemas ...
• Extension means old MCP cards still acceptable
  The registration deadline for new MCP cards has come and gone. Tuesday was the last day to re-register for MCP and the provincial Health ...
• Council approves LSPU Hall funding
  St. Johns city council has ratified its year-old agreement to fund renovations to the LSPU Hall, home of the Resource Centre for the Arts. At a ...