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• An island fortress
  Carbonear - An island that held firm in the face of French aggression and was later used by fishermen to process and store fish is being promoted ...
• Town calls for merger
  One of the towns hard hit by the loss of the paper-making industry in Central Newfoundland sees greater regional co-operation as a central plank ...
• Union has no regrets
  There's plenty of sadness and nostalgia among people put out of work by the closure of the AbitibiBowater newsprint mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, ...
• Pain in the long neck
  A senior official with Molson Canada is denying a claim that the beer maker breached a long-standing bottle agreement with its main competitor, ...
• Chalkboards going the way of the dinosaur
  An iconic symbol of education in this province will soon be left in the dust. By the start of the 2009-10 school year, it will be hard to find a ...
• 'We are forestry people'
  It's bound to be a sentimental and difficult few days for Glenn Peyton, the Botwood woods contractor whose family has supplied fibre to the ...
• Mill to close early: Abitibi
  The two paper machines at the AbitibiBowater newsprint mill in Grand Falls-Windsor will fall silent for good sometime between Feb. 12 and 15, a ...
• Increase noted in head lice cases
  Pharmacists in the St. John's region say they are seeing an increase in demand for the products that treat head lice, but caution that the trend ...
• Towns heating up
  The calls started Friday morning, and Long Harbour Mayor Gary Keating hopes they keep coming. "It's very encouraging now that people realize ...
• Rebuild to begin soon
  A rare Second World War vintage bomber that was recovered from a lake in Labrador nearly five years ago is still at least a decade away from ...
• No layoffs planned, manager says
  There are no plans to slash jobs at Country Ribbon, the province's only fully integrated chicken producer and processor, says chief executive ...
• Ocean Ranger Voices
  A new oral history of the Ocean Ranger disaster is based on interviews with those closely involved. This was a working class, blue-collar ...
• From cucumbers to cul de sacs
  Homes will start going up in the coming weeks on a controversial property that was once home to a notorious greenhouse, and was later at the ...
• No slowing a Henley man
  It's mid-afternoon atop Signal Hill in St. John's and the January winds are howling. Standing upright in one spot is next to impossible. But ...
• Delay causing frustration
  Frustration is mounting in the Placentia area over the progress of constructing a new high school in the town, says Mayor Bill Hogan. "It's ...
• Layoffs announced at mine
  The operator of a mining project on the Baie Verte Peninsula has been forced to lay off employees and scale back operations because of plummeting ...
• Rob vs. The Reef
  Corner Brook's Rob Hutchings is planning to do something that's never been done - swim the entire length of the Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a ...
• Removals disrespectful, professor says
  Education Minister Joan Burke's decision to remove four volunteer members of Memorial University's Board of Regents before their terms had ...
• Regents deposed
  A provincial government decision to remove four members of the Board of Regents last week before their terms expired was part of an ongoing ...
• Survival advice from former mill towns
  As the reality of a decision by AbitibiBowater to close its Grand Falls-Windsor paper mill slowly sinks in, community leaders in two New ...
• New operator possible: union
  The AbitibiBowater newsprint mill in Grand Falls-Windsor will close in late March, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the 100-year history of ...
• Second chance at life
  Tracey Perry walks quietly down the access ramp, her hands in her pockets, staring up at the guardrail and the traffic speeding along the ...
• Strong on Safety
  Over a 46-year career in industry, Eli Dean has seen his share of mishaps - including some that led to deaths - on the job. He's even taken ...
• Refinery expansion deferred
  The owner of the North Atlantic refinery in Come by Chance reiterated Monday that a US$2-billion expansion planned for the aging facility has ...
• 'What makes you rob a hippie bus?'
  A family of adventurous, planet-lovers from Dawson City, Yukon who travelled to Newfoundland aboard an old school bus powered by waste vegetable ...
• Not satisfied to lumber along
  The provincial government is preparing to drop a lifeline to the struggling integrated sawmill industry, but it won't be in the form of handouts ...
• Spike in business no accident
  Those who work in autobody repair in St. John's say business has been brisk, despite the absence of snow and ice on the roads. They say it's a ...
• Mill's fate known by year's end
  The future of the troubled paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor will be decided by the end of the year, officials with AbitibiBowater said Tuesday ...
• Talk of the town
  It's been an overwhelming few years for Judy Ricketts. She's been featured in a fundraising calendar, been the subject of numerous media ...
• Hes still with me
  He's been dead for more than 40 years, but Edna Ricketts says her late husband, Victoria Cross winner Tommy Ricketts, is still with her every ...