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Stargazing or glamping on your summer bucket list? Cosy up in a geodesic dome by True North Destinations in Pleasant Bay along Cape Breton Island’s Cabot Trail. Read our interview with the owners on Page 11. - Belle DeMont

True North Destinations brings Eco-chic to Cape Breton Island

Experience the very best of summer in Atlantic Canada

- Belle DeMont Photo Illustration

Millicent McKay offers an insider’s guide to P.E.I.

Can tourism strangle a community's identity?

Is tourism a trap for Atlantic Canadians?

Foraging for wild food in Atlantic Canada

Four food trucks to try in Newfoundland this summer

Underwater tourism is the ultimate immersive experience

Is Atlantic Canadian tourism doing luxury right?

The Cooper family hasn’t stopped looking for the body of Luke. He was last seen in this river on July 15, 2018.

Family of missing North West River man files complaint against RCMP

Updated 3 hours ago

File

MARTHA MUZYCHKA: St. John’s needs to clean up its recycling system

Updated 4 hours ago

These eight wooden crosses mark a small cemetery located near the Western Bay Lighthouse Trail and Tacker’s Cove in the community of Western Bay, about 27 kilometres from Carbonear. Some of the graves date back to the 1600s.

Western Bay cemetery plot dates back to 1600s

Updated 6 hours ago

Madison Pretty (from left), Erin Gallant and Holly Dunphy, stand alongside Alison Walsh’s horse, Tinker, a 16-year-old Arabian cross horse at the Spirit Horse NL-Stable Life grounds on Indian Meal Line. A celebration of Walsh’s life will be held during Spirit Horse Day on Sunday from 10 a.m.

Spirit Horse Day continues to honour Alison Walsh’s memory

Updated 10 hours ago

Local

This architectural rendering shows the proposed design of a new learning centre at O’Brien Farm in Pippy Park.

Fundraiser underway to build learning centre at O’Brien Farm in St. John’s

Updated 2 hours ago

Deer Lake Mayor Dean Ball speaks at a news conference to release the report on water quality in the Humber Canal at the town hall Wednesday. Looking on are, from left, Darren Pelley, Corner Brook Pulp and Paper’s general manager; Bob Scott, senior hydrogeologist with Stantec Consulting Ltd.; and Bryan Leece, Stantec’s senior toxicologist.

Environmental consultant says chemicals found in Humber Canal pose no risk to drinking water

Updated 11 hours ago

The inaugural Telegram 100 takes place at Eastbound Park in Avondale on Sept. 1, 2019.

CONTEST: Telegram 100 Ridealong at Eastbound Park in Avondale

Updated 4 hours ago

These are examples of the types of messages people are painting in the boards for the Western Bay Lighthouse Trails project.

Western Bay Boardwalk of Art allows residents, tourists unique opportunity to leave their mark

Updated 26 minutes ago

Opinion

The Holyrood Thermal Generating Station.

EDITORIAL: Power struggles

Updated 11 hours ago

Scales of justice.

EDITORIAL: Balancing act

Published Aug 20, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Dwight Ball.

LETTER: In Ball we trust?

Updated a day ago

['The Hibernia platform.']

EDITORIAL: Crying over spilled oil

Published a day ago

Business

Millennials made up 56 per cent of new campers in 2018, with Gen X comprising another 25 per cent.

Balking at cottage prices, millennials are driving RV sales

Updated a day ago

An example of Showcase's new flagship design that the company is rolling out across the country over the next year, including at the Avalon Mall in St. John's this fall.

Showcase to open a new location in the Avalon Mall in St. John's.

Updated Aug 20, 2019 at 8 a.m.

Mary Brown’s owner and CEO Greg Roberts speaks with reporters on Saturday at the company’s mural unveiling on Adelaide Street. –Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

St. John's-based Mary Brown’s eyeing expansion to Middle East, UK

Updated Aug 19, 2019 at 3:19 p.m.

The former Scamper’s location on Lemarchant Road has been closed for about 20 years.

Solving a mystery on LeMarchant Road in St. John's

Updated Aug 15, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

Sports

The expectations are that Steve Marcus will be head coach of the St. John’s Edge for the upcoming NBL Canada season, but officially, he still holds the “interim” label that came when he took over the team late last season. — St. John’s Edge photo/Jeff Parsons

Steve Marcus hasn’t officially been named head coach of the St. John’s Edge, but is still busy planning for a new season

Updated 9 hours ago

Colin White #36 of the Ottawa Senators takes the face-off against the New Jersey Devils during a game in December, 2018.

Senators sign Colin White to long-term deal

Updated a day ago

Members of the Holy Cross-Avalon Ford women’s soccer team gather to raise the championship trophy after winning the Breen’s Jubilee Trophy provincial senior women’s soccer championship Sunday at King George V Park. It was the fourth straight championship for the Crusaders.

Holy Cross wins fourth straight Breen’s Jubilee Trophy

Updated Aug 19, 2019 at 7:24 a.m.

Members of the Calahoo, Alta. Erins celebrate their second straight Canadian senior women’s fastpitch softball championship title Sunday at Lions Park in St. John’s. The Erins beat Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon G-Force 5-3 in the final for their latest win.

Alberta squad retains senior women’s championship

Updated Aug 19, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

Local Lifestyles

File

MARTHA MUZYCHKA: St. John’s needs to clean up its recycling system

Updated 4 hours ago

“My Camino,” by Patrick Warner; Biblioasis; $21.95; 248 pages.

JOAN SULLIVAN: ‘My Camino’ has starts and stalls

Published Aug 17, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Hungry for something to read? Pick a new N.L. book.

ON THE SHELVES: Berries not ready? Pick new local books instead

Published Aug 17, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Parsons was a fan of pointillism in her other forms of art, so she quickly fell in love with the hand-poked technique of tattooing.

Hand-poked tattoos can be elegant, Cape Breton artist proves

Updated Aug 13, 2019 at 5:02 p.m.

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Sergio Davì, an Italian skipper sailing from Italy, arrived in St. Anthony on his way to New York on August 19. Davì, pictured, sits aboard the wheelhouse of his trusty inflatable boat. STEPHEN ROBERTS / THE NORTHERN PEN PHOTO

Taking the Atlantic on alone in an inflatable boat, Italian skipper finds Labrador Sea a unique challenge

The Cooper family hasn’t stopped looking for the body of Luke. He was last seen in this river on July 15, 2018.

Family of missing North West River man files complaint against RCMP

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This architectural rendering shows the proposed design of a new learning centre at O’Brien Farm in Pippy Park.

Fundraiser underway to build learning centre at O’Brien Farm in St. John’s

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