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• Hearings set on N.L. access to Quebec grid
  Newfoundland and Labrador is about to get the chance to state its case for access to the Quebec power grid. Hearings at Quebec's regulator - the ...
• Hydro-Quebec deadline passes
  Nalcor Energy president Ed Martin says he expects to make a decision next week on how to proceed with a request to renegotiate the Upper ...
• Province ponders pension options
  The provincial government is waiting to receive a series of valuations and reports from consultants before deciding what actions, if any, to take ...
• Drug program use lower than expected
  The Department of Health has expressed surprise that two highly touted new provincial prescription drug programs have not been used as much as ...
• Walsh gets 22 months
  A provincial court judge has sentenced Jim Walsh to 22 months in jail, calling the former Liberal MHA's case "a large-scale fraud against the ...
• Corrupt activity spanned years
  Two dozen kickback payments to a House of Assembly official. Forged invoices from people who don't exist. Expense claims altered to give him cash ...
• Walsh guilty of corruption
  For years, Jim Walsh has maintained his innocence. From his 5-1/2 hour interview with police investigators in 2007 through his seven-month trial ...
• Transmission battle crosses borders
  Newfoundland and Labrador's Crown-owned hydro corporation has been sending U.S. regulators a series of "informational filings" criticizing ...
• 'Steady as she goes' for Nalcor
  Quebec's deputy premier may have flatly rejected a request for renegotiations on the Upper Churchill power contract, but the president of ...
• N.L. wants power deal reopened
  This time, they say, it's different. Newfoundland and Labrador officials are again asking Hydro-Quebec to reopen the disastrous Upper Churchill ...
• Thinking before clicking
  Bradley Furlong wasn't aware just who could access the personal information posted on his Facebook page. Some 300 million people, in fact, give ...
• Further charges in House scandal
  In June 2001, John William Hand admitted to defrauding the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) of more than $75,000, by submitting false ...
• Update: Businessman charged in spending scandal has...
  The businessman police have charged with defrauding the provincial legislature was actually on probation for defrauding the federal government ...
• Judge to decide Walsh's fate
  Victim or villain? A provincial court judge will now decide which of those two starkly contrasting tags applies to former MHA Jim Walsh. In ...
• U.S. regulator lacking info to decide role in power...
  American regulators say they don't yet have enough information to determine whether they will have any jurisdiction over Hydro-Quebec's pending ...
• Turning the corner on H1N1
  There are some signs the province could be turning the corner in dealing with the H1N1 virus, as school absentee rates approach normal levels and ...
• Briefing notes confidential, premier says
  Members of the public should "absolutely not" be allowed to see briefing notes prepared for him or his ministers, according to Premier Danny ...
• Getting off the ground
  Before Northstar Network Ltd. can get to work in a facility building aircraft, it must assemble some building blocks of its own. Two of those ...
• Talks in limbo pending review
  Negotiations with potential clients of Lower Churchill power are in limbo while Quebec regulators consider a Newfoundland and Labrador request to ...
• Balancing act
  While the province is on track for better than expected financial results this year, Premier Danny Williams is warning that government spending ...
• 'They've lost all control'
  Premier Danny Williams says a tentative deal that will see Hydro-Quebec gobble up NB Power for $10 billion in cash and other considerations is a ...
• Province can 'tailor' funds under new EI agreement
  The province is set to take over responsibility for running programs aimed at helping recent employment insurance (EI) claim-ants get skills ...
• Dollar daze
  On Tuesday, the loonie retreated two cents against the U.S. dollar. No big deal? Not to Howard Nash. "That represents $15,000 to us on just one ...
• Changed times for finance minister
  Government - He may be back in his old job, but Finance Minister Tom Marshall is facing a new set of challenges. "Obviously when I was there ...
• Vale Inco sued over royalties
  A lawsuit is alleging the owner of the Voisey's Bay mine is selling ore at low prices to non-arm's-length companies to reduce the amount of ...
• Satisfaction split
  Residents of the province are split on their satisfaction with the government's handling of health care, according to recent polling commissioned ...
• Clerk seeks peace bond against deputy mayor
  Avondale's town clerk has filed a court application seeking a peace bond against the deputy mayor. Linda Bourgeois-Fraser made the application ...
• Kennedy shuffled to tough portfolio
  Jerome Kennedy is now the third health minister in the past three months, but he vows he'll be able to handle the strain of what may be the ...
• Surgeons issue warning on St. Anthony situation
  Two surgeons in St. Anthony have issued a blunt warning outlining their "grave concerns about the future of health care and particularly surgical ...
• Andersen gets 15 months
  The cinching of handcuffs around Wally Andersen's wrists marked the end of his long fall from the political heights of the Big Land to a term of ...