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A Service Canada scheduled outreach office has opened in Nain to support the community to access government services. - Service Canada

New Service Canada scheduled outreach office opens in Nain, N.L.

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

Service Canada has recently added a new scheduled outreach office in Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador’s most northerly community. Located on 17 Sandbank Road, the office is a single point of access to federal government services provided on a regular, ...

College of North Atlantic's Prince Philip Drive campus in St. John's.

Murphy Centre gets additional $300K from N.L. government

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

Murphy Centre director Tim Turner says an additional $300,000 in funding from the Newfoundland and Labrador government will help the adult education organization deal with a financial shortfall and enhance academic services. The province says the new ...

The RNC say they recovered these handguns from a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Brandon Chafe of Mount Pearl.

Former Goulds shooting suspect arrested on new weapons charges in Mount Pearl

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

Less than five months after having attempted murder charges tossed due to delays in court proceedings, Mount Pearl's Brandon Chafe is returning to provincial court on new charges Friday, May 3. Around 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, the RNC’s weapons and ...

KEITH GOSSE/THE TELEGRAM
Dominion stores across the province closed Sunday. a spokesman for Dominion says the union is on strike while the union says they have been locked out.
(THE  ST. JOHN'S TELEGRAM /KEITH GOSSE)

'War against income inequality': Why these N.L. shoppers are joining the Loblaws boycott

Gary Kean |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

There’s a certain grape juice Shelley Senior buys because it agrees with her sensitive stomach. It’s only available at Dominion, but the Corner Brook resident is willing to go without that product for the next month as she participates in the ...

Dave Callahan owns the independent gas station in St. George's on the province's west coast. - Contributed

'Just not acceptable': West coast businessman steps up to help family of man in health-care limbo

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

Dave Callahan would give anything not to be right in his belief that basing the province’s air ambulance service in St. John’s will be detrimental to health care in other parts of the province. However, he said a situation on the west coast this week ...

NL Health Services vice-president of human resources Debbie Molloy and CEO David Diamond speak at news conference on Thursday, May 2, where they outlined a two-year plan to phase out agency nurses by March 2026. Cameron Kilfoy • The Telegram

NL Health Services announces two-year plan to reduce reliance on and number of agency nurses

Cameron Kilfoy |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

NL Health Services has a two-year plan to phase out agency nurses, CEO David Diamond announced at a news conference on May 2. The aim is to reduce agency nursing numbers back to pre-COVID-19 levels by March 2026, he said. “We want to do this in a ...

Premier Andrew Furey speaks to reporters outside the House of Assembly on Tuesday. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

Furey says any potential deal on Churchill Falls will be debated and voted on in House of Assembly

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

Premier Andrew Furey gave a speech to the Empire Club in Toronto on Wednesday, May 1, and one of the topics discussed was the ongoing negotiations over Churchill Falls. He referred to the negotiations as a “generational opportunity,” but was mum on ...

NAPE president Jerry Earle and Education Minister Krista Lynn Howell speak to reporters outside the House of Assembly about increased funding for student assistants. Evan Careen • The Telegram

Government reannounces increased funding for student assistants in N.L. schools

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

The provincial government announced on Thursday, May 2, as it did in the budget this spring, that it will increase funding for the number of student assistants in the K-12 public education system by $3 million, which would add 104 full-time ...

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers are investigating two reports of gunshots fired in downtown St. John's on Friday, April 19.

St. John's man charged with assault in downtown robbery

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated May. 2, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

A 37-year-old man is facing charges after he allegedly threatened a person with a weapon during a robbery at a St. John’s residence on May 2.  Just before 3 a.m., the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary patrol officers responded to a robbery report at a ...

The Phoenix Reisen Amera is arriving at the St. John's Port Authority on May 5, kicking off this year's cruise ship season. Handout

City of St. John's cruise ship season starts with 900-passenger vessel arrive Sunday, May 5

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated May. 2, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

The City of St. John's and the St. John's Port Authority are looking forward to a busy cruise season starting earlier than normal this year in May. On May 5, the first ship — Phoenix Reisen Amera — will bring up to 900 passengers to the province's ...

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