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Access Roads Opened For People With Property Near Forest Fires
The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture is opening several forest access roads in the area of Paradise Lake and the Bay d'Espoir Highway so that owners can check on cabins, campers and o...
Aug 14, 2022
Baie Verte Without Emergency Services Over Next Two Days
The Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre will be without emergency services twice over the next couple of days. Central Health says the temporary measure is due to a shortage of staff. ER services at th...
Aug 14, 2022
Carbonear Heritage society Honours Two Prominent Business Families
Some prominent business families who helped to build the town of Carbonear have been recognized with storyboards, prepared by the Carbonear Heritage Society. The storyboards recognize the Udell and Fo...
Aug 14, 2022
SEA-NL Calls for Crackdown on Foreign Overfishing
SEA-NL is calling on Ottawa to address foreign overfishing. The organization says the fact that a Faroese longliner with six accusations of fishing violations within the past year was allowed to retur...
Aug 14, 2022
Effects of Central Wildfires on Salmon Not Yet Known: Salmonid Interpretation Centre
The operator of the Salmonid Interpretation Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor says the impact fires in central Newfoundland had on local salmon populations is yet to be determined. Kim Thompson says she h...
Aug 14, 2022
Ed Martin Appointed as Director at MUN Centre for Entrepreneurship
Memorial University has appointed a new director of its Centre for Entrepreneurship. Ed Martin begins in his new position on Monday. Martin recently served as the CEO of Carnegie Learning Zorbit's, fo...
Aug 14, 2022 Photo: Rich Blenkinsopp
No Parking for Churchill Park Music Festival Attendees at Arts and Culture Centre
People heading down to the Churchill Park Music Festival in St. John's today will not have access to the Arts and Culture Centre parking lot. According to the venue, the lot will be reserved today for...
Aug 14, 2022
Week One Team NL Athletes Returning Home After Successful Outing at Canada Summer Games
Some of the athletes representing Team Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2022 Canada Summer Games are arriving home today. It has been a very successful outing for Team NL at the games thus far. The te...
Aug 14, 2022 Via @nlbasketball on Twitter.
Metro Police Arrest Wanted Woman While Investigating Possible Impaired Driver
Police in the metro region nabbed a wanted woman overnight while investigating another person for impaired driving. The RNC pulled the vehicle over near Oxen Pond Road at around 1:30 a.m. They say the...
Aug 14, 2022
$1-Million Lotto Ticket Sold in Paradise
Check your lottery tickets! The province has a new millionaire. A Lotto 6/49 ticket sold in Paradise for the August 13th draw is a guaranteed prize winner of $1-million. More details will be released ...
Aug 14, 2022
