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Klondike Jake's 'Heading Home' After 20 Years in Business
Another long-time restaurant business in the capital city is being shuttered. Klondike Jake's, which has operated out of the Village Shopping Centre for two decades, announced on Facebook that "after ...
Sep 06, 2019
NL Unemployment Rate Rises, Breaking 13%
Newfoundland and Labrador's unemployment rate has gone up. It was 12.8 per cent in July but in August that jumped to 13.1. Nationally, the economy posted a job surge last month of 81,100 net new posit...
Sep 06, 2019
If We're Going To Jail, We're All Going Together: NL Municipalities Fight for Time and Funding on Wastewater Regulation
Armed enforcement officers threatening 60-year-old volunteer town clerks with jail time. Millions of dollars in upgrades expected from towns with less than a thousand people. Reps from over a hundred ...
Sep 06, 2019
Alan Doyle Announces New Solo Deal with Warner Music
Big news out of Canadian Country Music week for musician Alan Doyle. It was announced Thursday evening that Doyle has signed a solo deal with Warner Music Company bringing him back to the company wher...
Sep 06, 2019
Innu Nation Calls Out Feds On NCC MOU
The Innu Nation isn't mincing words, coming down hard on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the federal government and the NunatuKavut Community Council on the eve of a federal election. The...
Sep 06, 2019
Cabinet Shuffle Creates Need to Elect New House Speaker
The provincial government has revealed its post-election Cabinet, and it means there will be an election for Speaker. Perry Trimper is back in Cabinet after being Speaker for the past couple of years....
Sep 06, 2019
FFAW Warns of Losing Up to 50% of Crab Quota with Proposed Oil and Gas Development
The fisheries union says between 40 and 50 per cent of their crab quotas will disappear if government goes ahead with oil and gas developments that cut into valuable fishing grounds. The C-NLOPB relea...
Sep 06, 2019 (Stock photo.)
PCs Raise Questions As Deal Full of Tax Breaks Goes to Cannabis Company with Liberal Ties
The Opposition is concerned about several aspects of an agreement between the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the third cannabis grow operation in the province. The deal allows for million...
Sep 06, 2019
Dorian Bringing Rough Weather to the Province Saturday
Hurricane Dorian is predicted to reach the Gulf of St. Lawrence and possibly the west coast of the province by tomorrow. At least thirty people in the Bahamas have been confirmed dead in the wake of t...
Sep 06, 2019
Province Has More Family Doctors But Thousands Still Without Service
The province's health minister says Newfoundland and Labrador has more family physicians than it's ever had but the way they practice is changing. Eastern Health has 54 more family physicians than it ...
Sep 06, 2019
