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Mount Pearl Mayor Working with Government to Mitigate Team Gushue Highway Traffic
With Team Gushue set to return to the Olympics in the new year, many tongue-and-cheek inquiries have arose about the completion of the Team Gushue Highway. Construction of the highway, named for the 2...
Dec 30, 2021
SJSEL Awaiting Report on Growlers Investigation
St. John's Mayor Danny Breen is providing an update on the Growlers investigation. The team and its management were temporarily suspended from access to the building while an investigation was launche...
Dec 30, 2021
Eastern Health Issues List of Potential COVID Exposure Sites
Eastern Health has issued another list of potential COVID exposure sites. A full list of dates and times can be found below. Anyone who visited the businesses on the dates and times listed is encourag...
Dec 30, 2021 (Photo: YYT Twitter)
Review of Government Assets Not Doubling Up on PERT Report, says Premier
The Premier insists the $5-million-dollar review of all government assets doesn't duplicate the work of Moya Greene in the PERT report. The province recently hired Rothschild and Company to put a valu...
Dec 30, 2021 (Premier Andrew Furey)
Newfoundland and Labrador Reports Record Daily COVID Cases with 349
Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting another record daily COVID case count with 349 cases reported since yesterday. 199 cases are in the Eastern Health region, 53 are in Central Health, 22 are in th...
Dec 30, 2021
COVID-19 Testing Clinic Setting Up in Twillingate
Central Health is advising residents of the Twillingate area of a COVID-19 testing clinic that will be set up tomorrow. The clinic will be for those who are close contacts of a confirmed case and thos...
Dec 30, 2021
Eastern Health Redeploying Staff to Swabbing and Booster Shots
Eastern Health is busy redeploying staff to swabbing and booster shots in light of the recent rise in COVID case numbers, and that means that only urgent or emergent appointments will be going ahead a...
Dec 30, 2021
Metrobus Moving to Reduced Schedule Due to COVID Surge
Metrobus is moving to a reduced schedule on January 3, thanks to changes imposed following a surge in COVID cases. Metrobus says with most schools moving to virtual learning and more people working fr...
Dec 30, 2021
No Newfoundlanders or Labradorians in Latest Appointments to Order of Canada
No one from this province made the cut for the latest appointments to the Order of Canada. The 135 names were announced on Wednesday by Rideau Hall. They include former Senator Murray Sinclair, who ch...
Dec 30, 2021 (Photo courtesy the Office of the Governor General of Canada.)
Additional Visitor Restrictions Implemented at Long-Term Care Facilities
Eastern Health has suspended all in-person visits at its facilities, except for some exceptional circumstances. Effective immediately, all in person visits to inpatients in a hospital setting, long te...
Dec 30, 2021 (File photo.)
