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• Guessing games
  Gaming might be fun, but it's serious business. xxxxxx St. John's-based gaming supply manufacturers, The British Group, held a news conference ...
• Protesters occupy MacKay's office
  About 20 fish harvesters - organized by the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) - protested at the St. John's office of Defence Minister Peter ...
• Single kitten survives fire
  There were no injuries to people, but fire destroyed an abandoned barn at a well-known farm in St. John's, and forced the city's animal welfare ...
• Aboriginal group seeks class action
  About a half dozen Inuit people sat in the public gallery of Supreme Court Monday to hear the tedious legal arguments over whether their abuse ...
• Shattered table, shattered nerves
  The Maddox family was enjoying a lazy afternoon on their patio deck in Mount Pearl 10 days ago, when their peace and quiet was literally ...
• Seals not worth trade war: Sullivan
  Canada's fisheries ambassador Loyola Sullivan said the recent European Parliament vote to ban Canadian seal imports hurts the industry and is ...
• Vale Inco awards major contract
  It's a contract that has the business community buzzing and top executives at work early. The Telegram has learned that on Monday, Vale Inco ...
• ATV toddler recovering
  A two-year-old ATV crash victim has moved from intensive care to a general ward at the Janeway Children's Hospital in St. John's. "He just has a ...
• Pier pressure
  A Paradise man, Ford Oldford, is demanding the provincial government repair his family's summer home wharf in Burnside, Bonavista Bay, because, ...
• Goodbye and 'get on with it'
  Calling it "my university" Memorial University's outgoing acting president Eddy Campbell spoke from his heart Tuesday as he discussed saying ...
• Job losses worst in Atlantic Canada
  Newfoundland and Labrador is experiencing the worst job losses in the Atlantic region, according to a new report by the independent economic ...
• White Fleet ship saved from scrapyard
  The company that plans to sail one of the last remaining Portuguese White Fleet vessels to Newfoundland next year has expanded its flotilla of ...
• Vale Inco steps in on union lists
  Nickel giant Vale Inco has heard enough complaints about tight access to union memberships needed to work at its $2.2-billion nickel processing ...
• Adventure Tourist
  Bryan Manning is not a soldier. He is not a government official, spy, journalist or volunteer. He's just a 31-year old from Torbay. But when ...
• Despite anti-Canadian rhetoric, few Newfoundlanders...
  Call it the myth of separation. Historically, the vast majority of Newfoundlanders - about 75 per cent - describe themselves as Newfoundlanders ...
• Wente's kinder words
  Margaret Wente - the popular and controversial columnist with The Globe and Mail - didn't miss a beat when asked by The Telegram to revisit the ...
• Student loan interest eliminated
  The province is spending $5 million dollars to eliminate the interest on Newfoundland and Labrador student loans and raise personal grants from ...
• Millions for some, but not all, schools
  Darin Pike walked into Thursday's budget briefing hoping for the best, but ready for the worst. Pike is the CEO of the Eastern School District ...
• Speaking up for salmon
  Salmon can't speak, so Greg Billard does it for them. Billard is the president of the Salmonid Association of Eastern Newfoundland (SAEN). ...
• Friends, family find comfort amid grief
  It was immediately clear upon arrival - this was not going to be a regular service at the Basilica. The front parking lot of the famous church ...
• Last words kept private, for now
  The content of the voice cockpit recorder recovered Tuesday from downed Cougar Helicopters Flight 491 is for investigators' ears only - despite a ...
• Beacons in silent seas
  Among the many questions facing investigators into the crash of Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 Thursday, is this troubling one - why didn't ...
• E-wasted time
  Of all things to speak to his lawyer about, Waldo Scharwey didn't think his latest advertising flyer would be one of them. Scharwey - owner of ...
• Former MHA and MP John Lundrigan dies
  Long-serving Progressive Conservative politician John Lundrigan died Thursday. He was 70. "It is with great sorrow that the family of the late ...
• Devastated in Darfur
  Six months ago, the answer would have been easy for Justin Brake. The Memorial University student and freelance journalist is an advocate for ...
• NDP theory scuttled?
  "Far-fetched." "Very unlikely." "Conspiracy theory." These are just some of the responses Tuesday to comments by MP Peter Stoffer. The NDP ...
• For sale: ready-made town, just add money
  Mayors of two west coast municipalities are interested in expanding their boundaries to include luxury chalets, buildings and land that made up ...
• Psychologist permanently suspended
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Psychology Board (NLPB) has permanently suspended former St. John's-based psychologist Stephen van Houten for ...
• Teen charged with murder
  Judy Strong said Tuesday's news that the RCMP had arrested her neighbour and family friend for murder - 18-year-old Craig John Blundon of ...
• Market adjustment
  As Jennifer Paul and Gerry Power set out to view the first of four houses Thursday night, they have no idea they are poster children for buyers ...