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St. John’s Man Successfully Reaches The Summit Of Everest
Mark Ballard has successfully reach the top of the tallest mountain in the world. Ballard, originally from St. John's, had last communicated that he had reached Mount Everest's Camp Four yesterday and...
May 21, 2019
Province Tops Country In Per Capita Spending On Booze
Newfoundland and Labrador tops all provinces when it comes to money spent boozing. Statistics Canada figures for the fiscal year 2016-2017 (April 1-March 31) show that this province spends $1,056 per ...
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 – Should Eddie Joyce and Paul Lane be invited back to the Liberal Party?
May 21, 2019
Abortion Doulas Training To Give Women Support Before, During, And After
Abortion Support Services Atlantic recently gave a two-day workshop in St. John's on how to become an abortion doula. The training was brought to the province by Emma Duke, the Mindful Doula postpartu...
May 21, 2019
Adelaide’s Honey Bee Hike A Sweet Way To Learn The Ways Of Bees
A St. John's business has been recognized for its work in promoting agricultural tourism. Adelaide's Newfoundland Honey has developed a Honey Bee Hike centered around its Pollinator and Wildflower Res...
May 21, 2019
High School Party Trashes Wooded Area In Torbay
A high school party left bottles and trash strewn across a wooded area in Torbay over the weekend. Pictures posted to social media show a mess of broken bottles, bags, and furniture littering the area...
May 21, 2019 Trash left over following a field party in Torbay in 2019 (Bethany Rossiter)
Purse Stolen Seventeen Years Ago Among Thousands Of Objects Retrieved By Avalon Pond Cleanups
A woman's purse, stolen 17 years earlier, is just one of the thousands of objects picked up by a group of locals cleaning up ponds and walking trails in the province. As the snow has receded, the prov...
May 21, 2019
Upwards Of Fifteen Icebergs Off Bonavista
If you like checking out the many icebergs that come in off our waters each year, now might be a great time to head to Bonavista. Bob Currie is the operator of Discovery Sea Adventures in Bonavista, w...
May 21, 2019 An iceberg in Bonavista. VOCM file photo by Mark Gray.
May 20, 2019 - Have you ever had a commercial DNA test done?
May 20, 2019
May 19, 2019 - The recreational groundfish fishery will be open for a total of 39 days. Are you satisfied with this year’s schedule?
May 20, 2019
