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The new team, hitting the court next May, shares the name, logo — and owner — as St. John’s ECHL franchise.

Four of the new cases are in the Eastern Health region, one is in the Central Health region and one is in the Western Health region.

Some living in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and surrounding communities have been without electricity for over 24 hours as Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro works to locate and fix the cause of the sweeping power outage in the area that started early Thursday morning. 

The only road links to and from Port aux Basques washed out during a record storm.

“Think about all the hands — white and Black — Newfoundland and Caribbean — that are joined by fish, rum and molasses. The poor hands, enslaved hands, hands working in dangerous environments. Hands that hauled in nets of codfish and salted them never touching the hands that cut the sugar cane and stirred the vats of molasses.”

Lineups at grocery stores in the Channel-Port aux Basques, N.L. area are a little longer as the provincial government starts repairing washed-out roads, but the premier says he’s not worried about a lack of supplies.

The area is cut off from the rest of N.L. by road washouts, and with lineups at grocery stores and pumps, MHA Andrew Parsons is asking people not to hoard food or fuel.

The area is cut off from the rest of N.L. by road washouts, and with lineups at grocery stores and pumps, MHA Andrew Parsons is asking people not to hoard food or fuel.

Joanna Gillen Mahoney and her husband Marc wasted no time booking a COVID-19 vaccination appointment for their two children under 12 years old. 

The storm that has blanketed much of southwestern Newfoundland since Tuesday brought with it record rain fall totals and a lot of damage.

The storm that has blanketed much of southwestern Newfoundland since Tuesday brought with it record rainfall totals and a lot of damage.

Premier Andrew Furey announced over $35 million in funding for projects connected to the offshore oil industry Tuesday. NDP Interim Leader Jim Dinn says funding should instead be used to attract green industries to the business and support the training of workers.

Premier Andrew Furey says they’re assessing damage from an unprecedented rainstorm.

A man over 70 in the Central Health region has died of COVID-19, public health authorities said Wednesday.

The RCMP say the active search for the boaters, who were reported missing Nov. 14, has drawn to a close.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s deficit is down — but, unexpectedly, not because of the oil and gas sector.

Police and the Department of Transportation are reporting multiple washed out roads in the Codroy Valley area, including the Trans-Canada Highway near Doyles, after a rainstorm pummelled Newfoundland’s southwest coast overnight.

Residents on the south west coast of Newfoundland are waking to damaged roadways and a lot of water as a severe rain storm continues to hit the area Wednesday morning. 

A plan for communal living is taking off in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s.

Health Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for kids aged 5 to 11.

The Newfoundland Growlers are heading back to St. John’s. 

A severe rain storm is beginning to move over southwestern Newfoundland, and meteorologists say it will break records.

The Newfoundland and Labrador fishing industry is riding high following a banner year that saw the value of landings top $1 billion for the first time.

The Newfoundland and Labrador fishing industry is riding high following a banner year that saw the value of landings top $1 billion for the first time.

The southwestern edge of Newfoundland could see between 200 and 350 mm of rain over the next 36 hours in a weather event meteorologists say will most likely land in the record books.

Fifty years of flesh-specked, festering jawbones pried out of moose by hunters and dropped in bins all over Newfoundland and Labrador have led to what biologist Don Keefe says is among the richest wildlife data sets in North America.

10 recoveries bring Newfoundland and Labrador’s active case count down to 12 — the lowest it has been since Aug. 19.

Billy Gauthier got the shock of a lifetime when a snowy owl climbed onto his kayak on Lake Melville.

Owner Dean MacDonald says he may want to build a new arena to house the embattled Newfoundland Growlers outside of St. John’s.

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The parents of a Mount Pearl teenager are wondering where to turn, after an alleged violent assault on their son by his high school classmates left him feeling unsafe and unprotected on school grounds.

At the Bridges to Hope food bank near downtown St. John’s, there’s one familiar sound: a phone that will not stop ringing. “Just last Friday we had like nine or 10 people who have never been to a food bank before,” says manager Jody Williams. 

A generations-long project aims to undo years of oppression and set a new course for the Miawpukek First Nation in Conne River.