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Phone Addiction Wears Down Resistance to Checking Notifications: Psychologist
Traffic enforcement officials warn of the dangers of distracted driving, yet people still can't seem to resist checking their phones, even when it doesn't make sense to do so. Psychologist Dr. Janine ...
Aug 21, 2019
Nurses Look for Solutions to Violence in the Workplace
"We have to do more." The President of the Registered Nurses Union is hoping a round table discussion, worked into the union's latest collective agreement with government, will help to address the vio...
Aug 21, 2019 Photo courtesy the Registered Nurses Union
Hibernia Still Shut Down After Most Recent Oil Spill
Production remains shut down at the Hibernia Platform following the latest oil spill in the offshore. HMDC says satellite imagery from yesterday shows no observable sheen on the water. Vessels sent to...
Aug 21, 2019
Steady as She Goes for Gas Pump Prices Predicted This Week
Mostly calm in the fuel forecast this week, as the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices predicts relative stability at the pumps. The group says gasoline should ease downward by about half a cent per li...
Aug 21, 2019
Section of Burin Peninsula Highway Closed Due to Moose-Vehicle Collision
A moose-vehicle collision has rendered a section of the Burin Peninsula Highway impassable. Marystown RCMP says the section of highway between the Bay L'Argent/Jacques Fontain exit and the Terrancevil...
Aug 20, 2019
Council Green-Lights Six Storey Building in Churchill Square
The proposed six storey multi-use building in Churchill Square has been given the final green light from city council. The decision came down at last night's city council meeting. Several concerns hav...
Aug 20, 2019
'Jake's Show n' Shine' Uses Love of Cars to Fuel Fundraiser for Autism Society NL
Ray and Jacob Griffiths are trying to build off last year's successful car and motorcycle show, in the second annual "Jake's Show n' Shine" in support of the Autism Society NL. The father and son team...
Aug 20, 2019
RNU President says Incidence of Violence Against Nurses Higher Than Policing, Corrections
It may come as a shock to some, but the President of the Registered Nurses Union says there is a higher incidence of violence against nurses, than there are against those in the policing and correctio...
Aug 20, 2019
System Failure at Paradise Sewer Station Leaves Town with Complex, Expensive Problem
Residents of Paradise are still awaiting emergency repairs on the sewer lift station on St. Thomas Line and Topsail Road, after a system failure early last week. Town officials were first alerted to a...
Aug 20, 2019
PCs Call for AG Investigation Into Failure to Cap Muskrat Falls Reservoir
Opposition Leader Ches Crosbie wants the Auditor General to investigate why flooding of the Muskrat Falls reservoir began without wetland capping. PC Leader Ches Crosbie says the reservoir was flooded...
Aug 20, 2019
