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Wanting to give back to the community, the owner of Gypsy and Ginger, Gillian Phillips, cooked up free vegetarian meals for those in need on Saturday. Contributed

State of emergency lifted in St. John’s, but need for food remains, home-based bakery owner says

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Tipping a hat to those who stood through the storm

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Pedestrians walk with their dogs along Carpasian Road in St. John’s Friday morning as a vehicle drives by on the snow-narrowed street. JOE GIBBONS/THE TELEGRAM

Some safety tips for motorists and pedestrians as you head back to work

Updated 19 hours ago

Mayor Danny Breen says more than 4,000 truckloads of snow have been cleared from St. John's since last week's blizzard. JOE GIBBONS/THE TELEGRAM

Week-long St. John's state of emergency ends

Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 11:40 p.m.

Provincial

Dalhousie University professor Zhenyu Cheng displays a Sina Weibo post with the latest update on cases of coronavirus in his office at the university on Friday. Cheng is a former resident of Wuhan. TIM KROCHAK/ The Chronicle Herald

Halifax researchers launch equipment drive for Chinese colleagues treating coronavirus

Updated 13 hours ago

Point Leamington's Kelly Earle is hoping Health Canada will give the go ahead to a new drug called Trikafta intended to help with the strain of cystic fibrosis her 13-year-old daughter Sammi-Jo James struggles with. Here, James is shown with her trophy for being named the 2019 Janeway Children's Miracle Network Champion. CONTRIBUTED

Point Leamington mother hopes Canada will green light latest cystic fibrosis treatment

Updated Jan 23, 2020 at 7:40 p.m.

Gerry Mercer is a youth outreach worker for Eastern Health in Clarenville. — JONATHAN PARSONS/THE PACKET

'It was chaotic': Clarenville Youth Outreach Worker using his own life experience to help others

Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 8:41 a.m.

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Beloved Corner Brook music teacher Gary Graham posthumously honoured with MusicNL's Lifetime Achievement Award

Updated Jan 23, 2020 at 7:10 p.m.

Canada

Immigration lawyer Lee Cohen, shown at his office in 2019, says the federal government is putting the life of his client - a former CSIS agent - at risk by throwing him out of the country. - File

Former Halifax counter-terroism spy down to last chance to stay in Canada

Updated 6 hours ago

The site of the future home of the Nova Scotia Community College's campus is located on the Sydney waterfront to the west of Kings Road/Esplanade between Crescent and Falmouth streets. DAVID JALA/CAPE BRETON POST

Nova Scotia Community College's new waterfront campus in Sydney to reflect local history

Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 8:10 p.m.

Derek Cameron Whisenand, who is wanted in Texas for murder, was arrested Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, for suspected shoplifting at a business in the Bayers Lake business park in Halifax.

Deportation decision for Texas homicide suspect to be made in February

Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 5:58 p.m.

Brenda Donovan holds the poster she made for the rally in support of Dr. Manivasan Moodley, which took place on Thursday evening outside the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney. Behind her, other supporters chant as cars honked. Many people are upset Moodley's sponsoring doctor withdrew a week ago and the specialist is being forced to close his practice within a week. NIKKI SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON POST

UPDATED: Supporters rally for Cape Breton doctor under fire for inappropriate behaviour

Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.

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