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Salvage Operations Begin for Baltic III as Coast Guard Sets Up Staging Area
Canadian Coast Guard officials have established a staging area near Lark Harbour as the private salvage effort to recover the Baltic III gets underway. The container ship ran aground near Lark Harbour...
Feb 18, 2025 Submitted photo
Economic Review Highlights Significant Growth in Metro Housing and Employment
New housing starts skyrocketed in the metro region last year, according to the 2024 economic review recently released by the capital city. The report looks at economic indicators for the St. John's Ce...
Feb 18, 2025 (Photo via City of St. John's.)
Fisheries Union Challenges DFO's Mandatory Electronic Logbook Plan
The FFAW is raising concerns after they say the Department of Fisheries and Oceans rejected their proposal for the implementation of electronic logbooks. President Dwan Street says harvesters currentl...
Feb 18, 2025
Education Accord Criticized by CUPE for Potential Privatization Moves
CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador says the provincial government's Education Accord "reeks of privatization." The interim report of the Education Accord was received last month, with the final document b...
Feb 18, 2025 CUPE NL President Sherry Hillier
Lisa Dempster Pleased with Plans for New Cartwright School
The MHA for Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair, whose political career was launched by her advocacy with the local school council, is pleased that a tender has been issued for the construction of a new K-12 s...
Feb 18, 2025 Lisa Dempster (VOCM News file photo)
New Increases Set for Labrador Sport Travel Subsidy
The provincial government has announced increases to its Labrador Sport Travel Subsidy. The program gives support to athletes aged 18 and under, special Olympians, and organizations to participate in ...
Feb 18, 2025
Council of Canadians Raises Alarm Over Labrador Hydro Development
The Council of Canadians is raising the alarm over the "dubious economics" and the environmental damage caused by further hydro development in Labrador. The Council of Canadians is echoing concerns ra...
Feb 18, 2025 Churchill Falls Generating Station/Smallwood Reservoir.
83rd Anniversary of Truxton and Pollux Disaster
Today marks the anniversary of one of the US Navy's worst disasters and an occasion when the extraordinary heroism of everyday Newfoundlanders helped to prevent further loss of life. The American nava...
Feb 18, 2025
Too Early to Speculate What Caused Plane to Flip Upside Down at Toronto Pearson: Fire Chief
Officials say it is too early to speculate what may have caused a Delta Air Lines plane to flip upside down after landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport yesterday afternoon. There were no fa...
Feb 18, 2025
GoFundMe Started After St. Anthony Boys and Girls Club Destroyed by Fire
A GoFundMe fundraiser has been started for the Boys and Girls Club in St. Anthony which lost its building to fire last month. The historic building was used to provide services ranging from after scho...
Feb 18, 2025
