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Check out the lights from your area and around Atlantic Canada below! - 123RF photo

Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas lights map — Click to submit your ...

Get creative with Christmas projects right at home

You never know what to expect with a gift exchange.

A gift to anticipate

Shown here are the angels of Rose Blanche: (front, from left) Mildred Hatcher, Edith Leamon, Judy Hardy, Rita Currie, Joan Herritt, Valarie Pink, Alice Billard, (back) Maxine Edwards, Lesley Hardy, Violet Clarke, Lena Penney, Erna Buckland, Phyllis Horwood and Victoria Savoury. Missing from photo are Judy Francis, Ruth Deveaux, Audrey Best, Diane Hardy, Sylvia Munden, Diane Munden and Wanda Anderson.

Sewing love, cheer into every stitch

Artist Adam Young is often inspired by fishing stages.

Island of inspiration: Artist Adam Young paints vibrant scenes of East ...

Rooted in Christmas tree traditions

Roseanna Boyd is the president of the Hants County Christmas Angels Society and spends the holiday season helping others. She’s shown here with K-Rock 89.3 radio host Darrin Harvey.

Holiday help at the ready

Rose O’Keefe won The Telegram's Choice award for her Rose’s Raisin Molasses Bread recipe.

Recipes for the holidays

Using baker’s twine and miniature clothespins, you can easily clip up Christmas cards as they arrive.

Decor, function go hand in hand with this DIY holiday project

Get cosy on the couch this Christmas and enjoy a festive movie marathon.

Must-watch holiday movies

Elizabeth Tuck says she was shocked when she found out she had been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship this November. - Contributed

Mount Pearl Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Tuck answers 20 Questions

Updated 21 hours ago

Cosmetic Snow for the mummers…
It was the first snowfall of the season and a great day for mummers to dance and sing in the annual Mummers Parade in Dildo, Trinity Bay NL. Marilyn Crotty snapped this great photo of a group of somewhat shady looking characters. I’m told there’s no right or wrong way to dress up, but concealing your identity is the mark of an experienced mummer.
No word on whether Marilyn found her inner mummer on Saturday.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Cosmetic snow for Dildo Newfoundland Mummers Parade

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Roebothan McKay Marshall Accident and Injury Law is proposing a mixed-use building with three levels of parking, retail space, two levels of office space, three levels of residential units, and a section of the building dedicated to a National War Memorial museum.

Proposed Water Street development gets extensive St. John's city council recommendations

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Trial begins for man accused of George Street sexual assault

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Roebothan McKay Marshall Accident and Injury Law is proposing a mixed-use building with three levels of parking, retail space, two levels of office space, three levels of residential units, and a section of the building dedicated to a National War Memorial museum.

Proposed Water Street development gets extensive St. John's city council recommendations

Published 6 hours ago

St. John's city council approves early New Year's Eve fireworks

Published 7 hours ago

City of St. John's, CUPE strike collective agreement

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E. Coli recall warning for salad kits sold in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Local Perspectives

Canada's provincial premiers meet in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 2, 2019.

TO THE POINT: Atlantic Canada must brace for new deal on equalization

Published Dec 07, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Canada's provincial premiers meet in Toronto on Dec. 2, 2019.

EDITORIAL: A rising tide should lift all boats

Updated Dec 06, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

EDITORIAL: Cheers & Jeers Dec. 9

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Ryan Cleary, president of the Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador, speaks to reporters in St. John’s Wednesday.

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: FISH-NL may change things, still

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Business

Amanda Rees is a fourth-year millwright apprentice from Conception Bay South. - Contributed

'Every corner I turn, there's another woman': Newfoundland and Labrador women in trades program being copied across Canada

Updated 13 hours ago

The Bear Paw Pipeline is the sister project of the proposed Bear Head LNG plant. In a regulatory filing, Bear Paw indicated declining spending in Nova Scotia is due to changes in global energy market conditions since it first applied for a permit for the project.

Extension granted to Bear Head natural gas plant, pipeline project

Updated 12 hours ago

Yellow and red varieties of mini creamer potatoes flow from a hopper towards sophisticated weighing equipment at the WP Griffin Inc packing warehouse in Elmsdale. The company, which also grows minis in blues and whites has installed new equipment and hired more staff to handle its new Potato Cuisine line which is ready to serve after six minutes in the microwave.

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Keep calm, eat your fries, and don't sweat potato crops

Updated Dec 06, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

Nova Scotia's big plans for Chinese trade not changing amid diplomatic tensions

Updated Dec 07, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Sports

Newfoundland Growlers netminder Parker Gahagen gets a piece of a shot by Worcester’s Kyle Thomas, deflecting it over the net during ECHL play at Mile One Centre Saturday night as Todd Skirving and Mike Kapla of the Growlers and Drew Callin of the Worcester Railers look on. Making his first-ever ECHL start, Gahagen had 29 saves as Newfoundland edged Worcester 3-2 for an eighth straight win at home. — Newfoundland Growlers photo/Jeff Parsons

Newfoundland Growlers had a different look and a U.S. army officer in goal, but maintained their same winning ways at home

Updated 21 hours ago

The Newfoundland Growlers made a $10,000 donation to the Newfoundland Blind Ice Hockey this past week. On hand for the presentation were (from left) top row: blind hockey player Brandon Joy, chief organizer Steve Joy, Growlers senior vice-president of hockey operations Trevor Murphy, Growlers head coach John Snowden, assistant coach Darryl Williams, assistant coach Adam Pardy and blind hockey player Dylan Bradbury. Accepting the cheque at the right is player Kaiden Benoit, accompanied by his mother Lisa Guest, and kneeling is player Zachary Harris. — Submitted

Blind hockey starting to make some noise in Newfoundland

Updated Dec 07, 2019 at 7:57 a.m.

St. John's Edge point guard Junior Cadougan (55) is shown in action against the Sudbury Five during a National Basketball League of Canada game at Mile One Centre in December. Cadougan has been named the NBLC's most improved player for 2018-19. The Edge and Five hook up tonight at Mile One in Game 1 of their best-of-five opening-round playoff series. — St. John's Edge photo/Jeff Parsons

Introductions are in order as St. John's Edge begin their third training camp

Updated Dec 06, 2019 at 7:54 a.m.

Then-Canucks head coach Marc Crawford in October 2005.

Patrick Johnston: Add Harold Druken to the crowd decrying Marc Crawford's coaching past

Updated Dec 04, 2019 at 11:20 a.m.

Local Lifestyles

Elizabeth Tuck says she was shocked when she found out she had been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship this November. - Contributed

Mount Pearl Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Tuck answers 20 Questions

Updated 21 hours ago

The cover of “What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home” by Sonja Boon. CONTRIBUTED

JOAN SULLIVAN: Sonja Boon’s complex, poignant search for family history delivers a

Updated Dec 07, 2019 at 6 a.m.

“True Lovers Leap, Newfoundland,” painted by the late Franklin Arbuckle of Toronto, sold for $30,680 — five times more than the opening bid of $6,000 in an online auction held by Cowley Abbott auctioneers. Residents of the Port de Grave Peninsula know the story that inspired the painting.

There’s a true Port de Grave Peninsula Romeo and Juliet story behind $30K painting 'True Lovers Leap, Newfoundland'

Updated Dec 03, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

The Big McKenna at Johnny & Mae’s food truck is messy in the best kind of way. GABBY PEYTON PHOTO

GABBY PEYTON: Ten things I ate about town

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