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Olympic and World figure skating champion Kaetlyn Osmond conducting a day-long seminar with young skaters at the Mariners Centre in Yarmouth that included on-ice instruction and a Q&A. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

World and Olympic champion figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond spends day ...

Need for Speed P1 A1

Bent steel and broken lives: why do we drive too fast?

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

Newfoundland and Labrador 2018 Christmas Lights map

Ninety-seven-year-old Max Bennett resides in Novato, California with his wife of 70 years, Isabelle. - Contributed photo from Gary Bennett

Burin Peninsula native recalls war-time service

Long Range Mountains MP Gudie Hutchings

OPINION: Small business makes a big impact

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

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) office in St. Anthony is closed.

St. Anthony mayor questions why food inspection office moved

['letter to the editor']

LETTER: A fix for the Muskrat Falls debt

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

Continuing the fight: FISH-NL preparing for Gander convention

A Royal Newfoundland Constabulary vehicle.

Weekend arrest in Churchill Falls results in a number of charges

The wharf adjacent to the Oldest Colony Trust building in Burin was once home to a lifeboat station for the Canadian Coast Guard. It now sits vacant.

Town of Burin looking to develop SAR Wharf

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 2:46 p.m.

A deplorable right-of-way providing access to several businesses located off Columbia Drive in Marystown has been a major annoyance for the business owners, the town and motorists for years.

No easy fix for pothole-riddled road, Marystown restaurant owner says

Published Jan 10, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

Mike and Nicole Walsh of Marystown won $20,000 on an Atlantic Lotto scratch ticket on Christmas Day.

Christmas stocking scratch ticket makes Marystown couple $20,000 richer

Updated Jan 10, 2019 at 2:20 p.m.

Slippery roads today.

Icy commute to work anticipated for eastern Newfoundland, Avalon Thursday morning

Updated Jan 09, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.

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 2 hours ago

Lotto 6/49

No one claims big prize in 6/49; St. John’s ticket takes the tag

Published a day ago

Jeff Bourne, executive director at U-Turn in Carbonear, is happy to help educate the public about the use of naloxone kits.

Pick up a naloxone kit, potentially save a life says U-Turn head

Published Jan 19, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.

Gunner Leo Knox enlisted as a teenager in 1944, joining the 166th (Newfoundland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in Italy upon deployment. The Second World War and St. John’s Regional Fire Department veteran died this week.

Leo Knox was war veteran and St. John's first fire prevention officer

Published Jan 19, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Sports

Ski patrollers head to the top of Smokey Mountain on the new lift.

Smokey Mountain gets a facelift

Published 8 hours ago

Business

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) office in St. Anthony is closed.

St. Anthony mayor questions why food inspection office moved

Published 6 hours ago

The idled fish plant in Jackson’s Arm will soon be growing a variety of vegetables and maybe even cannabis someday.

St. John’s-based company hoping to grow cannabis, manufacture value-added products in former fish plant in Jackson’s Arm

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 8:12 a.m.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans supervisor Dwayne Holwell, left, and fisheries officer Trent Chaffey bag groceries for customers as the new initiative to end plastic bags use gets underway.

Twillingate and New World Island say goodbye to plastic bags

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

Stock photo

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

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Living

On Saturday evening, author Carol Anstey, and gospel recording artist Krista Noble held a joint book and CD launch at Emmanuel Pentecostal Church in Deer Lake, the hometown of both women. The first single from the album, "Is it all worth it," was written by both Anstey and Noble.

PHOTO: Carol Anstey, Krista Noble hold book and CD launch together

Updated 23 hours ago

The old rail bridge over the Gaspereau River near Avonport, N.S., always takes a lovely photo. Barry Burgess snapped this one as the late day sun was peeking through a mix of sun and clouds (not cloud!).

CINDY DAY: Plural puzzle - do our ‘winds’ clear the ‘cloud’?

Published Jan 17, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Jennifer Penny celebrating her Super Set for Life lottery win.

Scratch ticket pays off big for Bay Roberts woman

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

Adrian Beaton of Jack Axes at the Water Street facility on Tuesday afternoon.

Axe-your-ex event not welcome in St. John’s

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 10:52 a.m.

Opinion

Long Range Mountains MP Gudie Hutchings

OPINION: Small business makes a big impact

Published 4 hours ago

Sherri Alexander will be taking her snowmobile to Cormack on Saturday in order to get a better understanding of it during Sledcore's all-female riding clinic.

NICHOLAS MERCER: A Cold Brook woman is taking a clinic to better understand her snowmobile

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 1:57 p.m.

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: Breached site was ‘high risk’ for some

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Laughter is indeed a magical elixir and Nick Mercer and the Avion Players are practicing some such alchemy Jan. 20-21 at the Arts and Culture Center in Gander, says columnist Carolyn Parsons.

ART & SOUL: Laughter is the best medicine

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 5:08 p.m.

Community

Mike Aylward

Labrador West Pioneers: Mike Aylward

Published a day ago

Taking part in the presentation of the car seat was, from left, big sister Miley Spearing, father Martin Spearing, mother Amy Cadwell, Dr. Willy Yogolelo (physician) and baby Maggie Jane Marlena Spearing.

New Year’s baby at the Labrador West Health Centre

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 2:57 p.m.

Travis Musseau (left) with his buddy, Ryan Pearce, who is currently battling cancer.

Countrywide support for Port aux Basques man battling cancer

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

The Jacobs family and tournament organizer Brooke Kinden feel that a volleyball tournament is the perfect way to celebrate Caitlyn’s life. Pictured, from left, father Gary Jacobs, Kinden, mother Suzanne Jacobs and sister Chelsea (Jacobs) White.

Volleyball players in Lewisporte honour one of their own

Updated Jan 14, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

Recent Stories

Long Range Mountains MP Gudie Hutchings

OPINION: Small business makes a big impact

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

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) office in St. Anthony is closed.

St. Anthony mayor questions why food inspection office moved

['letter to the editor']

LETTER: A fix for the Muskrat Falls debt

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

Continuing the fight: FISH-NL preparing for Gander convention

A Royal Newfoundland Constabulary vehicle.

Weekend arrest in Churchill Falls results in a number of charges

Ski patrollers head to the top of Smokey Mountain on the new lift.

Smokey Mountain gets a facelift

The new ferry for the Strait of Belle Isle is named the Qajaq W, pronounced kayak. Some are concerned that the spelling of the name uses a different Inuit dialect than is used in Labrador.

Qajaq or Kajak? Labrador ferry name doesn't use Labrador Inuit dialect

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 at sentences for offenders

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

Newfoundland Senior Hockey League

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

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