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St. John's Day of Mourning
RNC surrounds house, negotiates with individual inside
Various units of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) were present on Livingstone Street in downtown St. John’s on Friday afternoon, April 26, after reports of a barricaded person in a residence there. The incident occurred just before 2 p.m., ...
Happy Valley-Goose Bay man charged with child luring
A child luring investigation led Happy Valley-Goose Bay RCMP to arrest and charge a 22-year-old man on Thursday, April 25. Mounties executed a search warrant in the Labrador town, during which they seized several items, including electronics, which ...
New Brunswick woman honoured to take part in National Day of Mourning event in Corner Brook
Last summer, Leah Jenkins-Foster came to Corner Brook to see the place where her father, Willis Jenkins, worked and died. As many visitors have before her, she fell in love with the area and vowed to return. Little did she think then that it would be ...
Ambassadors from Baltic nations Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia visit St. John's, Goose Bay airbase
The ambassadors from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in Newfoundland and Labrador this week. The trio toured Labrador – which involved a visit to 5 Wing Goose Bay – followed by a trip to St. John’s, which included an engagement at Memorial ...
‘Emotionally I have been broken,’ said N.L. social worker assaulted by a teen she was working with
A different person, no longer trusting and no longer carefree, is how a social worker who was brutally beaten by a youth at an individualized living arrangement on the west coast now describes herself. “Emotionally I have been broken,” the woman said ...
Team Gushue Highway completion held up by several factors, including bureaucracy
The final phase of the Team Gushue Highway construction is behind schedule and, according to documents obtained by The Telegram through an access to information request, the federal government appears to be part of what is holding it up. In a March ...
Mackerel bait fishery opening in Atlantic Canada ‘a slap in the face,’ says Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters’ union
The federal government labels it a good news story, but not everyone is happy about news of a mackerel bait fishery opening this spring. During a virtual press conference on Thursday, April 25, Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard Minister ...
Schrödinger's House (of Assembly) cat: N.L. shelter standards expected by June
Politicians don’t usually spend a great deal of time fussing over physics, but it did come up briefly in the provincial legislature on Thursday. It was clear that not all of the MHAs were familiar with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger ...
Supreme Court of Canada to hear travel ban appeal of Newfoundlander
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday, April 25, it has granted leave to hear an appeal connected with a COVID-19 related travel ban put in place in Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ...
UPDATED: Thanks for the memories, Bob: Newfoundland hockey broadcaster Bob Cole has died at age 90
“Here, we go on a Saturday night.” Bob Cole, the voice of a generation of hockey fans, died Wednesday in St. John's at age 90. On Saturday nights, those fans would listen and watch as the boy from Topsail narrated their favourite teams playing their ...