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MUNFA, MUN Reach Tentative Deal
A tentative agreement has been reached in the ongoing labour dispute involving Memorial University's Faculty Association. Dr. Neil Bose, interim provost and vice-president academic with Memorial Unive...
Feb 10, 2023
MUN Lecturer's Union Files For Conciliation
As the strike between Memorial University and the Faculty Association continues it looks as though tensions between the university and another union may be escalating. MUNFA held a rally at the Arts a...
Feb 10, 2023
Bonavista RCMP Seize Unauthorized Weapons, Illicit Drugs
RCMP have charged two Jamestown, Bonavista Bay residents with multiple firearms charges. RCMP conducted a search of a home on Islandview Drive in Jamestown yesterday and seized a loaded sawed-off shot...
Feb 10, 2023
Grimes Found Not Guilty of Sexual Exploitation
A St. John's teacher has been found not guilty of sexual exploitation of a student in 2018. 34-year-old Krysta Grimes raced from the prisoner's box to embrace her lawyer, Rosellen Sullivan, after the ...
Feb 10, 2023
Osborne: ECE Wage Grid Changes Coming Into Effect April 1
The Minister of Education (alternate) says a promised change to the wage grid for early childhood educators in the province will come into effect April 1 - retroactive to January 1. Tom Osborne was re...
Feb 10, 2023
NDP Calling for Increased Oil Subsidies for People on Income Support
The New Democrats are calling on the provincial government to increase home heating oil subsidies for people living on income support in Newfoundland and Labrador Housing. Leader Jim Dinn notes that t...
Feb 10, 2023
RNC Continue Investigation Into Centre City Homicide
RNC say officers canvassing the Mayor Avenue/Newtown Road neighbourhood say their efforts have been very helpful in the ongoing investigation into a homicide in the area earlier this week. A badly inj...
Feb 10, 2023
CAMRT-Atlantic Concerned with Loss of Radiation Therapists in Province
The Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists says radiation cancer treatment in Newfoundland and Labrador is at risk of "crumbling" due to recent resignations from the radiation therapy...
Feb 10, 2023 Health Sciences Centre
Coast Guard Retires Vessel Used for Stock Surveys Off NL
The Canadian Coast Guard has decommissioned the science vessel Alfred Needler, a vessel used in stock surveys off the coast of Newfoundland and Labradror. The Coast Guard says the vessel has experienc...
Feb 10, 2023
Parents of Man Lost at Sea Advocate for Better Search and Rescue Resources in Labrador
The parents of a young man who was lost on a fishing trip off the coast of Labrador were in Ottawa this week to make their case for improved search and rescue in the region. Dwight and Jeannette Russe...
Feb 10, 2023
