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Leanne Osmond, who is originally from Paradise, has found a successful career as an online voice-over artist. — Submitted photo

Paradise native has found her voice

The Scotiabank in Manuels, Conception Bay South was the site of a brazen heavy-equipment break and enter early Friday morning. Thieves used an excavator parked in an adjacent commercial construction lot to remove the drive-thru ATM.

EDITORIAL: Cheers & Jeers Jan. 21

Sentencing for convicted criminals doesn’t always pan out the way the public thinks it should. But there are rules to follow. File photo

Crime and time in Newfoundland and Labrador: Here’s how courts arrive ...

Lady Cove Women’s Choir is delighted to host the world-renowned Rajaton on Jan. 29 at Holy Heart Theatre. Rajaton is a Finnish a cappella ensemble, founded in Helsinki in 1997. Tickets are $50 (plus box office surcharge) and can be purchased at the Holy Heart box office or online. There is also a limited number of VIP tickets available. See more information below.

Community events in and around St. John's from Monday, Jan. 21 to ...

I couldn't find a submitted photo of big snowflakes, but I remembered I had this one on my phone. A few of my favourite things: big puffy snowflakes, my Habs gear and skating on the Oval in Halifax, N.S.

GRANDMA SAYS: Size does matter

Scene from the Gilette ad campaign, #TheBestMenCanBe. —

PAM FRAMPTON: Let’s hear from men

Ryan MacFarlane and Jessica King.

Adult adoption not difficult in Newfoundland and Labrador, man says

The City of St. John’s has been dumping snow into St. John’s harbour for years, despite it being in violation of federal rules regarding pollution prevention in fish-bearing waters.

Dumping snow in St. John’s harbour violates federal law, but ...

Kevin Tobin's Editorial Cartoons

Employees of KP Harvey Construction and Sobeys on Kelsey Drive were busy doing repair work Monday morning after an early morning automatic teller machine heist at the supermarket in which a thief, or thieves, used a piece of heavy equipment to break through the front of the store and steal an ATM.

‘Master keys’ possible link to St. John's region backhoe break-ins

Workers from Thomas Glass put a temporary seal over a huge hole Saturday morning in the side of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) on Newfoundland Drive in St. John’s. The exterior wall containing the bank’s drive-thru ATM was ripped open.

Use of heavy equipment in crime not new in Newfoundland

Updated 12 hours ago

Churchill Park playground, St. John’s, Jan. 18. — Russell Wangersky/Saltwire Network

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: The biology of melancholy

Published 16 hours ago

The Scotiabank in Manuels, Conception Bay South was the site of a brazen heavy-equipment break and enter early Friday morning. Thieves used an excavator parked in an adjacent commercial construction lot to remove the drive-thru ATM.

EDITORIAL: Cheers & Jeers Jan. 21

Published 16 hours ago

Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons presides over Monday night’s public meeting of city council.

Movement afoot to develop former CBC building on Corner Brook’s east side

Published 25 minutes ago

News

Watercolour on ivory miniature Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March), by Lady Henrietta Hamilton, 1819 - Library and Archives Canada

Finally coming home: Scotland to return remains of Beothuks

Updated 4 hours ago

Leanne Osmond, who is originally from Paradise, has found a successful career as an online voice-over artist. — Submitted photo

Paradise native has found her voice

Published 16 hours ago

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

St. John’s drivers nabbed for outstanding fines, offences

Updated 12 hours ago

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

St. John’s death ruled not suspicious, but woman arrested on outstanding warrant at scene

Updated 12 hours ago

Sports

A.J. Gaines (35) of the London Lightning goes high to defend a shot attempt by Maurice Jones (2) of the St. John’s Edge as players on both teams, including Carl English (23) of the Edge and Josiah Moore (23) of the Lightning, look on during their NBL Canada game Sunday afternoon at Mile One Centre. The Lightning won 119-113 in overtime. — St. John’s Edge photo/Jeff Parsons

St. John's Edge don't bottle the Lightning

Updated 22 hours ago

Newfoundland Senior Hockey League

Newfoundland senior hockey: Breakers, Caribous share a split in Clarenville

Updated 23 hours ago

ROBIN SHORT: Refurbished Costco building could be answer to sporting quagmire

Published Jan 18, 2019 at 8 p.m.

Newfoundland Growlers photo/Joe Chase — These young girls seems to be enjoying themselves, cheering on the Newfoundland Growlers during a recent ECHL game at Mile One Centre.

BRENDAN McCARTHY: The grumble and the numbers; does St. John's qualify as a 'sports town?'

Updated Jan 19, 2019 at 10:11 p.m.

Business

The popular noodle restaurant Bad Bones Ramen has reopened in the former Tavola location on Water Street in St. John’s.

St. John's restaurant location switches noodles — from pasta to ramen

Published Jan 19, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Stock photo

MARK VAUGHAN-JACKSON: Newfoundland and Labrador bucking the trend on business investment confidence

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 6 a.m.

About 28,000 litres of synthetic drilling fluid spilled from the Transocean Barents rig in the Terra Nova oil field Friday.

Noia announces 2019 achievement award recipients

Published Jan 18, 2019 at 9:59 a.m.

A screen grab from Gillette's new advertisement. The ad for men invoking the #MeToo movement is sparking online backlash, with some saying it talks down to men and some are calling for a boycott.

Razor burn: Gillette ad stirs online uproar

Updated a day ago

Living

Little Bay Islands, Notre Dame Bay, from a 1910 photograph by Robert Holloway. Note the two men, leaning on the fence lower right, watching the photographer who has climbed a prominent hill with his equipment in order to get a bird’s-eye view.

PAUL SPARKES: Concerns of a century ago

Published 17 hours ago

Millennial Money: Quick ways to boost your savings in 2019

Updated Jan 18, 2019 at 11:55 a.m.

Kaiden Little, 6, passed away Monday afternoon.

Many expressing sympathy after passing of six-year-old Kaiden Little of Conception Bay South

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 12:47 p.m.

Canadian actors push for more diversity in television, film casting

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 11:15 a.m.

Opinion

The Scotiabank in Manuels, Conception Bay South was the site of a brazen heavy-equipment break and enter early Friday morning. Thieves used an excavator parked in an adjacent commercial construction lot to remove the drive-thru ATM.

EDITORIAL: Cheers & Jeers Jan. 21

Published 16 hours ago

The Muskrat Falls generation dam’s spillway and powerhouse are shown in Oct. 2017.

LETTER: Some thoughts on rate mitigation for the uninitiated

Published Jan 19, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Canada Dry Ginger Ale — made with real ginger, or not? —

EDITORIAL: Ginger debate bubbles over

Published Jan 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Businesses that no longer contribute to pension plans for their employees should have to pay more into the Canada Pension Plan, Russell Wangersky argues. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Businesses should share the pension pain

Updated Jan 18, 2019 at 7:50 a.m.

Community

Lady Cove Women’s Choir is delighted to host the world-renowned Rajaton on Jan. 29 at Holy Heart Theatre. Rajaton is a Finnish a cappella ensemble, founded in Helsinki in 1997. Tickets are $50 (plus box office surcharge) and can be purchased at the Holy Heart box office or online. There is also a limited number of VIP tickets available. See more information below.

Community events in and around St. John's from Monday, Jan. 21 to Friday, Jan. 25

Published 16 hours ago

Second World War veteran Leo Knox, 94.

Newfoundland veteran's family reflects on his life

Updated Jan 18, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

Ron Pumphrey in 2016.

Ron Pumphrey dead at 87

Updated Jan 09, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.

St. John's author Lisa Moore has been named to the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.

Community events in and around St. John's, Saturday, January 19 to Wednesday, January 23

Published Jan 19, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Recent Stories

Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons presides over Monday night’s public meeting of city council.

Movement afoot to develop former CBC building on Corner Brook’s east side

Gordon Wells moved snow across the road where Water Street and Petley Street meet in to divert water from flowing down over a steep lane and flooding his property in Corner Brook on Monday morning.

Corner Brook man takes to street with a shovel and scoop to divert water from his home

Corner Brook Regional High School.

Teen arrested after threats made toward Corner Brook school

The operator of a Town of Stephenville public works backhoe is seen working in a ditch between Minnesota Drive and Mayfield, where water had backed up on Monday morning and was getting close to a soccer equipment building.

No serious flooding in Stephenville from mild winter weather

Finn

MHA John Finn says government looking into paving cracking

Bob Byrnes stands next to a section of the Hansen Highway where he said cracking has occurred in the center section.

Bob Byrnes and paving expert say Hansen Highway pavement cracking too soon

Volunteers of all ages play a role in getting the Marshall-Moores Arena ready for the winter. Members of the Cox’s Cove Recreation Committee, with the help of young and old alike from the community, spend a lot of time trucking snow into the rink and getting it ready for water to be applied in an effort to create a great sheet of ice for everybody to enjoy when weather conditions are ideal. Here, a group of people from the community are busy spreading the snow around to cover up the concrete before the hoses are turned on to water it.

Colder temperatures required to get Marshall-Moores Arena open this week

Aaron Mercer is shown here in action with the Boston Bandits.

Finding his way in the crease has its share of challenges for goalie Aaron Mercer

City of St. John’s Deputy Mayor Sheilagh O’Leary led the Monday evening council meeting this week. O’Leary said Mayor Danny Breen was off sick with a seasonal flu.

St. John's city council approves bid to clean litter from downtown streets

Councillors Hope Jamieson and Deanne Stapleton voted against rezoning a section of Logy Bay Road to allow for a four-unit dwelling.

St. John's city council approves Logy Bay Road rezoning

RNC Const. Joe Smyth took the stand Monday in his obstruction of justice trial at provincial court in St. John’s.

RNC Const. Joe Smyth says he wasn’t out to get motorcyclist

Brandon Coady, 24, is escorted by a sherrif's officer from Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in St. John's to the lockup Monday morning. Coady will serve a six-year prison sentence for the attempted murder of Taylor King two years ago.

St. John's knife attack lands man six years in prison