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Fort Mac Residents Out of Home, Others on Alert Amid Western Fires
It could be next Tuesday before evacuated residents of Fort McMurray, Alta., can return home. Almost 7,000 residents have been displaced due to a nearby wildfire while the rest of the community remain...
May 16, 2024 Via @AlbertaWildfire on X
Fuel Prices Down Province-Wide in Latest Adjustment by PUB
Prices for all types of fuels are down slightly this morning across the province. The Public Utilities Board has lowered the cost of gas at the pump by 3.2 cents a litre. Diesel is almost unchanged on...
May 16, 2024
Update Today on Rate Mitigation to Offset Hit From Muskrat Falls
The provincial government has called a news conference for this morning to provide an update on its efforts to protect consumers from skyrocketing power bills due to the cost of the Muskrat Falls hydr...
May 16, 2024 (Muskrat Falls file photo, August 2019, courtesy Nalcor.)
Province Receives $13.7 Million in Federal Funding to Expand Childcare Spaces
The federal government is giving the province $13.7-million over the next four years to help expand access to childcare spaces. Federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Jenna Sud...
May 15, 2024 YMCA CEO Jason Brown
Police Look to Public Following St. John's Robbery
The RNC is asking for the public's help in their investigation into a robbery at the Guv'nor Inn and Pub on Elizabeth Avenue around 5:00 yesterday afternoon. The Constabulary says a man wearing a camo...
May 15, 2024 (Photo courtesy The Guv'nor.)
SIRT-NL Seeking Help Piecing Together Crash Involving RCMP SUV
The province's serious incident response team (SIRT-NL) is making a public plea for help in its probe of a crash involving an RCMP vehicle and another car. The collision occurred mid-afternoon Wednesd...
May 15, 2024 Photo from the “Skilled Truckers of Canada” Facebook page
Memorial University Holds Inaugural International Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Conference
More than 200 people took part in a recent conference focused on equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism held at Memorial University's Signal Hill Campus this week. Dr. Delores Mullings of MUN's ...
May 15, 2024 Dr. Delores Mullings (left) and Shazia Shaheen (right)
Fish Processors in New-Wes-Valley, Triton Nearing Strike Vote
The FFAW says negotiations have broken down in talks to reach a deal for the 375 processing workers employed by Beothuk Fisheries in New-Wes-Valley and Triton and the members will be in a legal positi...
May 15, 2024
More Consultation Needed Between Government and Construction Industry: Home Builders' Association
We are heading into one of the busiest times of the year for workers in the homebuilding industry and one would think that with all the government incentives and programs to spur construction, it woul...
May 15, 2024
NLTA Concerned With Continued Reliance on Emergency Supply Substitutes
The NLTA is concerned over the continued reliance on emergency supply substitute teachers in the province's school system. Schools had to lean on emergency supply, that is, a substitute to fill the ro...
May 15, 2024
