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MUN and Government Implementing New International Student Retention Incentives
The government and Memorial University came together Wednesday to unveil new incentives for international students to stay and work in this province after they graduate. Three new programs will focus ...
Dec 03, 2021
Visitor Restrictions in Place at Meadow Creek Due to Non-COVID Illness
Visitor restrictions at a personal care home in Paradise have been implemented due to a non-COVID, flu-like respiratory illness. The restrictions were implemented on Wednesday and will remain in place...
Dec 03, 2021
Some Garbage and Recycling Collection Rescheduled Due to Forecasted High Winds
High winds in the forecast mean that garbage and recycling collection scheduled for Friday in Area 5 and 5a of the capital city is postponed to Monday, December 6th. Winds are forecast to gust to abou...
Dec 02, 2021 (File photo.)
Public Accounts Committee Begins Review of Muskrat Falls Methylmercury Mitigation Report
The province's Public Accounts Committee will begin its examination of the Auditor General's report on why methylmercury mitigation was not taken prior to the flooding of the Muskrat Falls reservoir i...
Dec 02, 2021
Woman Charged After Failing to Appear in Court
Police on the west coast had to execute an arrest warrant to catch up with a woman who did not bother to go to court despite being ordered to do so. The RNC went to a residence in the Westside area of...
Dec 02, 2021
RNC Investigating Threats at Waterford Valley High
The RNC is investigating a report of threats at Waterford Valley High in St. John's. Police were called to the school shortly after 10:00 this morning, in relation to a report of threats made. The inv...
Dec 02, 2021
Young Newfoundlander Among Those Calling for Lower Voting Age
A young Newfoundlander is among those calling for a drop in the minimum voting age. Benjamin Oates just turned 19 and says including more people in the democratic process is never a bad thing. He thin...
Dec 02, 2021
Newfoundlander Subjected to Conversion Therapy Reacts to Banning of Practice
Conversion therapy "nearly broke me." That's the reaction of Gemma Hickey to the quick and unanimous passage of legislation banning conversion therapy in the House of Commons this week. The practice i...
Dec 02, 2021 Photo Credit Nicole Bond Winters
Corner Brook Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing From Minor Hockey Association
A Corner Brook woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $80,000 from the city's minor hockey association. 47-year-old Melissa Williams had originally pleading not guilty to six fraud-related cha...
Dec 02, 2021
Port aux Basques Mayor Praises Highway Crews as Southwest Coast is Reconnected
It's still slow-going but the southwest coast has been reconnected to the rest of the province. Port aux Basques Mayor Brian Button says highway crews did a great job in restoring the TCH link after f...
Dec 02, 2021 (Photo via Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.)
