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Community Sector Stresses Importance of Multi-Year Funding
The Community Sector Council Summit continues in the capital city, and a big topic of discussion today was multi-year funding. Premier Dwight Ball, and a number of cabinet ministers-including Lisa Dem...
Oct 28, 2019
Police Seek Pickup Allegedly Involved in Hit and Run
The RNC is seeking the public's help in locating a pickup allegedly involved in a hit run earlier this month. RNC responded to a collision at Allandale Road and Elizabeth Avenue around 8:00 p.m. on We...
Oct 28, 2019
Cigarette Packs Soon to Have Labels Stripped of Distinctive Designs
Canada's smokers will soon see their cigarette packs stripped of logos and distinctive designs as federal rules make drab brown the default colour for tobacco brands late next week. Plain-packaged cig...
Oct 28, 2019
St. Mark's Hosts First Anglican Church-Sanctioned Same-Sex Marriage
A little bit of history was made over the weekend at St. Mark's Anglican Church on Logy Bay Road. Reverend Robert Cooke presided over the first church-sanctioned same-sex marriage. The diocese only pa...
Oct 28, 2019
Election Fallout and Regional Division on the Agenda at Tonight's Galbraith Lecture with Evan Solomon
Last week's federal election will be the topic as political analyst Evan Solomon takes the podium this evening for the 2019 Galbraith Lecture in Public Policy at Memorial University. Solomon, who host...
Oct 28, 2019
Potential Showers Forecast for Halloween Night
Environment Canada has given us a preliminary look into what the heavens will be doing on Thursday as thousands of trick-or-treaters take to the streets. No precipitation is forecast for St. John's, t...
Oct 28, 2019 Stock image
South Coast Northern Harvest Fish Cleanup Completed
Northern Harvest says all the dead fish have been removed from cages in Fortune Bay, affected by a massive die-off over the summer. The removal was completed on Friday. Some 2.6-million fish died due ...
Oct 28, 2019 Picture courtesy the Atlantic Salmon Federation.
Two Crashes Stall Morning Traffic on Outer Ring
Two crashes eastbound on the Outer Ring Road have caused long delays on the drive to work. Both are between Thorburn Road and the Team Gushue highway. . @RNC_PoliceNL are on the scene of two-vehicle c...
Oct 28, 2019
Mould, Lack of Drinking Water Remains Major Health Concerns in Natuashish: Tshakapesh
A former Innu Nation Chief, who is seeking re-election next month, is raising the alarm about a mould problem which he says is rampant in Natuashish homes. Simeon Tshakapesh recently shared photos of ...
Oct 28, 2019
Team Gushue Comes in Second at Pinty's Grand Slam
It was close until the finish, but Team Gushue came up just short in the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling Masters men's final on Sunday. Team Gushue lost 8-5 to Team Dunstone of Saskatchewan at the Grand...
Oct 28, 2019
