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• Province provides update on costs of Lower Churchill
  Work on developing the potential Lower Churchill hydroelectric project has cost Newfoundland and Labrador taxpayers $247 million since the 1970s, ...
• Company backed off plan for 150 jobs
  A Canadian company with offices in the U.S., U.K. and India says it recently opted against an expansion plan that could have created about 150 ...
• $32 million pot of cash untouched
  The provincial government has not used any of the $32-million pot of cash announced in the 2007 budget to attract new businesses to Newfoundland ...
• Oil's well for budget
  The provincial government will funnel its unprecedented oil wealth into tax cuts and infrastructure development in a big-spending budget unveiled ...
• Abitibi assistance totalled $20M
  The provincial government provided AbitibiBowater Inc. with about $20 million in aid during the past two years, under a variety of programs - ...
• Rideout review complete; deputy premier to pay $16K
  Deputy premier Tom Rideout says will repay "in a timely manner" more than $16,000 in inappropriate rental claims for his former district of ...
• Insurance tax axed
  The provincial government is axing the tax on insurance, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2008. "This substantial investment will benefit each and every ...
• Authority will lose lawsuit: Williams
  A provincial health authority can't win a class-action lawsuit filed against it by cancer patients, Premier Danny Williams said in response to ...
• Premier denies province concealed cancer information
  Premier Danny Williams vehemently denied Monday that his senior officials or anyone else in his government deliberately withheld information on ...
• Eerie echoes of current tragedy in 1997 sinking
  The Canadian Coast Guard is reviewing its towing policy in the wake of an accident that killed at least three sealers from Quebec's ...
• Government withholding school reports
  The provincial Department of Education is withholding engineering reports on the state of two St. John's high schools, claiming the reports are ...
• Premier provides Hebron update
  Premier Danny Williams says he is confident the Hebron project will be a go, even if efforts to conclude a final deal aren't proceeding as ...
• Recycling investment cost ACOA over $500K
  Add another half million in tax dollars funnelled down the drain through the lack of a workable tire-recycling program in Newfoundland. The ...
• Turbot quota transfer sparks debate
  The province's Progressive Conservative government and Opposition Liberals are expressing dismay at the transfer of a turbot quota to Nova Scotia ...
• Williams attacks NDP leader over salary review
  Premier Danny Williams is attacking NDP Leader Lorraine Michael over her request to keep a salary stipend provided to the leader of a third party ...
• Critical hospital repairs not done
  A 2005 consultant's report concluded that the Waterford hospital site needed $35.6 million in "current requirements" to fix everything from leaky ...
• 'Business as usual' for TeleTech in Mount Pearl
  A global call-centre operator says it remains "business as usual" at its Mount Pearl location, which employs hundreds of people. Earlier this ...
• Liberals critique 'weaknesses' in funding system
  The Opposition Liberals are criticizing what they call "weaknesses" in controls and oversights at the Department of Innovation over government ...
• Healthy criticism
  The province needs to improve how it monitors and discloses information on infections acquired by patients in hospitals, according to a report ...
• Closure of legislature delays MHA ethics code
  The continued closure of the House of Assembly is delaying a new code of conduct for the province's MHAs. The implementation of a new ethics code ...
• New law gags AG
  Premier Danny Williams re-opened House of Assembly spending to scrutiny by the auditor general after taking office four years ago. But a law ...
• Williams touts aluminum smelter during Brazil trip
  Premier Danny Williams says a recent tour of Brazil gave him the chance to press CVRD to consider an aluminum smelter for Labrador. "The province ...
• Williams optimistic mill will stay open
  The provincial government is confident that AbitibiBowater's operations in Grand Falls-Windsor are safe, Premier Danny Williams said Wednesday. ...
• Feds green-light disaster relief cash
  The federal government has given the go-ahead to establish a pot of money for Newfoundland and Labrador to aid with disaster relief in the wake ...
• Loonie largesse
  The loonie's surge to historic highs means the provincial government will save more than $10 million in debt payments this year. As of the ...
• Tory wave rolls in
  The only thing in question appeared to be the size of the blue wave to come. When it subsided, Danny Williams' Tories won the largest share of ...
• Liberals favour royalties over equity
  The Conservative government is gambling with tax dollars by seeking equity investments in offshore oil projects, Liberal Leader Gerry Reid says. ...
• Risk and reward
  In the end, after all the analyses and calculations were done, it came down to something more elemental than pure mathematics. The province will ...
• And they're off
  Liberal Leader Gerry Reid launched his election campaign Sunday on the southside of St. Johns harbour, saying the location symbolized the partys ...
• Province conceded on early royalties
  The tentative deal on Hebron-Ben Nevis wipes out basic royalty level upgrades for the province in the early stages of the project. Government ...