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Home Base Up In The Air For Growlers 2021 Season
The Newfoundland Growlers are still talking things through and weighing options, but when they do start the season, they hope to do so with Mile One as home base. Travel restrictions between Canada an...
Oct 18, 2020
Community Ride to Encourage Helmet Use This Afternoon
The NL Brain Injury Association says the Save Your Brain Motorcycle Community Ride is a go this afternoon. The RNC, The Growlers, Adventures Unknown and Safety NL Lids for Kids are teaming up to creat...
Oct 18, 2020
HVGB Municipal Officer Behind a Desk Until Investigation Complete
The Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay is hiring an independent agency to complete the investigation into an incident where an Inuk man appears to have been thrown to the ground by a municipal officer. Th...
Oct 18, 2020
Brazil Lobbying For New High School In Portugal Cove-St. Phillips
The MHA for Conception Bay East - Bell Island is pushing to have a new high school built in Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. David Brazil says following conversations with councillors, school leaders and c...
Oct 18, 2020
RNC Make Arrests for Assault, Hit and Run & Sticky Fingers
The RNC is investigating an alleged assault that happened mid-day yesterday in downtown St. John's. Officers responded to the call of an assault with a weapon, just after 11 am and a 54-year-old woman...
Oct 18, 2020
Plague Doctors Downtown
The streets of downtown were "plagued" with people yesterday following a 'flash mob' style event. A group of plague doctors marched through the streets of the capital city as a way to bring a bit of m...
Oct 18, 2020 (Photo: Dean Doyle)
Newfoundland T'Railway Council Upgrading Bridges Along Southwest Coast Trails
Upgrades are coming to several bridges along the T'Railway provincial park. Over $340,000 in funding has been slated for improvements along the provincial park thanks to ACOA, the provincial governmen...
Oct 17, 2020 (Via Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency on Facebook)
Grants of Up to $10,000 Available for Pools and Arenas to Help with Pandemic Recovery
The provincial government is earmarking $600,000 to support community arenas and pools affected by the pandemic. The funds will be divvied up to help offset additional expenses and lost revenue that o...
Oct 17, 2020 File photo of Memorial University's Grenfell Campus pool.
"This Is What I Wanted": O'Regan Pleased with Structure of Oil and Gas Task Force
The Federal Minister of Natural Resources is pleased with how the task force to decide how to spend the $320-million in federal funding for offshore recovery has been structured. Details of the task f...
Oct 17, 2020
Man Charged After Striking Police Officers with Vehicle in Corner Brook
A man has been arrested in Deer Lake after hitting two police officers in with his vehicle in Corner Brook yesterday. Police say that shortly before 2:00 yesterday morning police conducted a traffic s...
Oct 17, 2020
