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• Drilling down Hibernia South
  The Hibernia partners are busy drilling a production well to develop a portion of the oilfield's southern extension known as AA block. The drill ...
• Back and forth
  The Voisey's Bay nickel company and the union representing striking steelworkers were in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Friday - and ...
• Hoping for treatment
  Linda Richards has been waiting and hoping for hyperbaric oxygen treatment since January to save her right leg from amputation. A native of ...
• Vale Inco sues over union 'interference'
  The labour battle between striking Voisey's Bay workers and their employer is headed for the courts. Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador is ...
• Mount Pearl: silence is golden
  It's the quietest election campaign Mount Pearl Mayor Randy Simms has seen in his two decades in municipal politics. It's also the least ...
• Molson Coors CEO visits St. John's brewery
  Peter Swinburn, president and CEO Molson Coors Brewing Co., has been in the beer business for more than three decades. The Welshman jokes Molson ...
• Oil declines deflate economy: RBC
  As crude oil pumps, so does the provincial economy, according to the latest forecast by RBC Economics. The Royal Bank's economics department ...
• Wanted: one fisheries auditor
  The provincial Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture is looking for an independent auditor to scrutinize the financial health of the fishery. ...
• Aurora pressing ahead
  Aurora Energy Resources is still aiming to develop a uranium mine in Labrador - all it needs is the scheduled lifting of a three-year moratorium ...
• Layoffs at Suncor in St. John's
  Job cuts are taking place at Suncor Energy's operations in Newfoundland and Labrador - but the company isn't saying how people are affected. ...
• Rig workers want ticket to ride
  Rig workers aboard the GSF Grand Banks - which is undergoing a refit at Bull Arm - want a ride to the offshore facility's front gate when their ...
• NDP leader gives advice on east-west power grid
  Premier Danny Williams may not like "buy-Hydro-Quebec" policies that frustrate efforts to build a national power grid - but NDP Leader Lorraine ...
• Hibernia South pumping oil in 2010
  Hibernia South is a go, at least a portion of it. The Hibernia partners received formal approval Wednesday to develop an additional 48 million ...
• No power lines for Gros Morne, premier says
  Transmission lines for the proposed Lower Churchill hydro project won't run through Gros Morne National Park, after all. Premier Danny Williams ...
• The new lead hand
  Paul McCloskey's office overlooking the St. John's waterfront is uncluttered, the desk and shelves practically bare, and the walls bereft of ...
• Virtual wedding planner owes debt to ACOA
  An Internet wedding-planning company launched in September 2005 went out of business three years later - owing ACOA more than $292,000 in loans. ...
• Air Labrador cutting flights to coastal towns
  Transportation - Fewer passengers and the impending completion of the Trans-Labrador Highway has prompted Air Labrador to review flights to ...
• Families get standing at inquiry
  The families of 14 of the 17 victims of the March 12 Cougar Helicopters crash received full standing Tuesday - allowing them to take part in the ...
• Nalcor heads west
  Nalcor Energy is taking a lead role in its first oil exploration play at Parsons Pond - giving the hunt for oil and gas on the province's west ...
• Province doing its part for the fishery, premier says
  Premier Danny Williams says the fishing industry ought to train its sights on the federal government - not the province - to solve its long-term ...
• ConocoPhillips leases offshore rig
  It's the worst-kept secret in the local offshore oil industry - Conoco-Phillips Canada has landed the drillship Stena Carron to spud its first ...
• Glimmer of hope for Orphan well in 2010
  The impending arrival of the drillship Stena Carron may pave the way for a second exploration well off Newfoundland's northeast coast led by ...
• Memorial University beefs up war-era archives
  Memorial University archivists are sifting through a treasure trove of recently acquired First World War-era documents, photos, postcards and ...
• Next stop: Space
  It's no stairway to heaven - more like an elevator to the stars. A Canadian technology company has a futuristic idea: a free-standing elevator ...
• The next frontier?
  So what's next on the offshore horizon for Newfoundland and Labrador? Natural gas, maybe. Repsol Energy Canada is new to the local offshore ...
• Hibernia South moving ahead
  Premier Danny Williams had plenty to crow about Tuesday morning - a tentative deal to develop Hibernia South, complete with a provincial equity ...
• Hibernia South in the offing?
  The offshore industry rumour mill has been unusually quiet about Hibernia South. And it could be the calm before a good-news storm. Some ...
• Offshore shipping news
  It's not the biggest ship the Bay Bulls Marine Terminal has ever seen, but it may be the tallest. The Jumbo Javelin is in Bay Bulls to ferry ...
• Ocean technologies get financial boost
  Innovation Minister Shawn Skinner unveiled a $28-million, five-year strategy to boost the province's ocean technology sector Friday. The goal is ...
• Hibernia profits grow for Ottawa
  The federal government reaped $288.2 million in profits from its ownership stake in the Hibernia oilfield last year - thanks to record world oil ...