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Changes Coming to Ambulance Service in Bay Roberts
Concerns about response times are behind changes to the ambulance service in the greater Bay Roberts area. The three ambulances in Clarke's Beach will be spread out with two of them soon going to be b...
Dec 14, 2019
Generosity of Strangers Helps Bring Christmas to Remote Labrador Town
A woman who brought Christmas to the 13 children in a remote town in Labrador says it takes a village. Stephanie Windsor is a nurse with Central Health and a coastal nurse with Labrador Grenfell Healt...
Dec 14, 2019
Greenland Ice Melting Faster than Anticipated, Study Says
Ice is melting faster than expected in Greenland, according to a study Memorial University is involved in. A group from Memorial University has joined a team of 50 scientists in international organiza...
Dec 14, 2019 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Old Phones Taking on New Purpose to Help the Visually Impaired
New smart phones are on Christmas lists in a lot of households this year, and the old ones can be put to good use with a program offered by CNIB. The Phone It Forward program takes old donated smart p...
Dec 14, 2019 (Stock photo.)
Users Asked to Avoid Snowmobile Trail in Labrador Due to Snow Clearing
People in central Labrador should avoid a portion of the snowmobile trail system for the next week or so because of snow clearing. 5 Wing Goose Bay will be moving snow on Dome Mountain Road starting t...
Dec 14, 2019 (File photo.)
Province Lifts Caps from Eye Treatment Drugs, Sets New Treatment Program
The provincial government has lifted the maximum dose caps for two vision loss treatments, effective immediately. Lucentis and Eylea are intravitreal injection drugs used to treat age-related macular ...
Dec 14, 2019
Two Arrested on Trafficking Charges After Police Find Drugs, Paraphernalia in Truck
A man and a woman have been charged with trafficking after police found two people cooking what appeared to be crack cocaine in a truck in a Clarenville parking lot. RCMP approached the vehicle Wednes...
Dec 14, 2019
Driver Charged Following Three Separate Crashes in St. John's
The driver of a pickup truck left a trail of destruction after crashing multiple times last evening. The driver of the truck, a man, was taken to hospital with unknown injuries after crashing his vehi...
Dec 14, 2019 Photo by Earl Noble
Message in a Bottle Brings Distant Families Together, Keeping Memory of Little Girl Alive
As people travel around the world to be together for Christmas, a family from Burin will open their home to some very special overseas guests. On the Burin Peninsula, Carolann and Bryan Riggs will spe...
Dec 13, 2019
Group Braves Confederation Hill in Frigid Temperatures for Climate Strike
A crowd of a few hundred protesters marched to the Confederation Building today despite the cold weather as part of a 'Fridays for Future' climate change strike. While the size of the crowd was smalle...
Dec 13, 2019
