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Purse Stolen Seventeen Years Ago Among Thousands Of Objects Retrieved By Avalon Pond Cleanups
A woman's purse, stolen 17 years earlier, is just one of the thousands of objects picked up by a group of locals cleaning up ponds and walking trails in the province. As the snow has receded, the prov...
May 21, 2019
Upwards Of Fifteen Icebergs Off Bonavista
If you like checking out the many icebergs that come in off our waters each year, now might be a great time to head to Bonavista. Bob Currie is the operator of Discovery Sea Adventures in Bonavista, w...
May 21, 2019 An iceberg in Bonavista. VOCM file photo by Mark Gray.
Assistance To Towns As River Rises
The Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay is offering whatever assistance is necessary should the Goose River cut off the towns of North West River and Sheshatshiu. Water levels on the Goose River, which are...
May 14, 2019
Emergency System Test Hits Phones, TVs, Radios Across NL
Alarms sounded on compatible cellphones, televisions and radios across the province this morning, as Alert Ready kicked off another round of tests on its emergency broadcast system. The alarms sounded...
May 08, 2019
Gas Prices Predicted To Drop Tomorrow
The Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices expects to see a reduction at the pumps tomorrow. Prices have been steadily increasing but gasoline may cost 2.3 cents a litre less tomorrow if things pan out th...
May 08, 2019
Couple Arrested In Corner Brook Break-In
A man and a woman have been arrested after a break-in in Corner Brook. The RNC have charged a 23-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman after a break-and-enter in an east side neighbourhood of the city...
May 08, 2019
Community Remembers As Leo Puddester Laid To Rest
"He was a man larger than life". That was the sentiment shared by all as Leo Puddester was laid to rest in a service at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist yesterday. Puddester was a former correctio...
May 08, 2019
Mixed Reaction To Coffin’s Suggestion To Spoil Ballots In Districts Without NDP
There has been plenty of reaction to recent comments made by NDP Leader Alison Coffin, who suggested that voters in districts with no NDP candidate spoil their ballot. Memorial University political sc...
May 08, 2019
‘Deaf Children Matter’: Engineer Joins Calls To Reopen School For The Deaf
A man from Pacquet on the Baie Verte Peninsula wants to see the School for the Deaf reopened and is crediting his own success as an engineer on the education he received there. Chad Greenham was about...
May 06, 2019
Online Cheers For Good Samaritan Metrobus Driver
A simple act of kindness, caught on camera and shared online, has resulted in accolades for a Metrobus driver. A bystander near the Avalon Mall witnessed the driver leave the bus to help an elderly pa...
May 06, 2019
