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If you have time and the ability to traverse a few challenges on the way, hiking to resettled communities is a remarkable way to encounter Newfoundland history, writes Keith Burgess.

Robin Benoit is responsible for a lot of the fancy regalia seen at powwows across the province. She not only specializes in making it, she also played a part in popularizing fancy regalia locally.  

The two Catholic churches in Mount Pearl are at the centre of lobbying over which one will be saved — and since church leaders in the city are deadlocked, the decision rests largely with Archbishop Peter Hundt.

When Bruce Rendell and his family were packing up their home for a move, they discovered a trunk, complete with items from a soldier’s days on the battlefield: documents, socks, trigger mitts, uniforms, helmets, puttees and bullets.

The Independent MHA says he’s not surprised by the suspension of Bruce Chaulk, Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief electoral officer — he just thinks it should have happened sooner.

The town of Trepassey has joined the list of Newfoundland and Labrador communities losing their only doctor, prompting residents to rally outside a community clinic Thursday to protest the loss of a physician who wanted to stay.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has added attempted murder, robbery and uttering threats to the list of charges that Brandon Chafe, 20, is facing after a shooting in the Goulds area of St. John’s on June 19.

Once upon a time, the lounge at Gander International Airport was a stopping point for world travellers and celebrities on the way to their next destination. In recent years, however, the lounge has remained largely dormant.

As a shortage of affordable rental housing grips the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, an anti-homelessness group is calling on the City of St. John’s to fill its vacant public units.

Scratch and patch season, also known as summer, often doesn’t come at all in the province’s remotest corners. This year, despite a pedal-to-the-metal marketing campaign welcoming back come from aways, not much has changed.

Co-owner Tony Green announced earlier this month the restaurant would close its doors on Friday, a decision driven by an inability to hire staff and the owners’ desire to spend more time with family.

Scratch and patch season, also known as summer, often doesn’t come at all in the province’s remotest corners. This year, despite a pedal-to-the-metal Come Home Year marketing campaign, not much has changed.

Gas is up by as much as 62 cents per litre in some parts of Labrador Thursday as a price freeze ends in parts of the Big Land.

An LGBTQ Pride organization in central Newfoundland says an event was cancelled after a church refused to allow the group on its property.

The pieces that were discarded were either expired, recalled or couldn’t be used in the provincial health system, according to the health authority.

The RCMP says three people were killed Tuesday night in a single-vehicle crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Hodgewater Line, just east of Whitbourne. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations are up slightly in this week’s pandemic update from Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Health. 

A St. John’s woman says the federal government has ruined her life and that she lost her family home due to long-standing issues with the notorious Phoenix pay system.

Changes and upgrades to the airport will begin soon — including a name change to the Stephenville International Airport.

The frequency of military flights into airports in Newfoundland and Labrador has increased as military and other aid flows toward Ukraine.

Newfoundland and Labrador residents who receive the income supplement and the seniors’ benefit will see a 10 per cent increase in their quarterly payments, the provincial government said Tuesday.

Newfoundland and Labrador has suspended Bruce Chaulk from his duties as chief electoral officer and commissioner of legislative standards.

Newhook became the third Newfoundlander to win the Stanley Cup, following Danny Cleary in 2008 and Michael Ryder in 2011.

Cannabis N.L. online customers have been asked to consent to having their data transferred from servers in Canada to servers in the United States  — and data and privacy experts say they should think twice before saying yes.

Tim Walsh of Memorial University’s Botanical Garden shows the CBC’s Carolyn Stokes how to team up plants for a great summer basket

Gail Bridgeman and Karen Burke had their trip to the province booked for over six months before arriving, but a mix up with Expedia left them without a rental car.

The RCMP responded to the accident before 9:30 a.m. after two vehicles collided near the Blue Canoe Campground.

A hockey journey that brought Alex Newhook from St. John’s to Colorado is already filled with accolades and triumphs — but none bigger than Sunday night’s win that made the 21-year-old rookie a Stanley Cup champion. 

Documents show that Ches Crosbie, the former leader of N.L.’s PC Party, donated $300,000 to his own party last year, as it waged an unsuccessful election campaign that was thrown into pandemic-caused chaos.

Officials are in the early stages of planning a facility that will house Innu artifacts returned from all over the world.

June marks the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, with early predictions indicating another “above average” year.

An SUV smashed through the front of Fogtown Barber in downtown St. John’s just after noon on Sunday.

An SUV smashed through the front of Fogtown Barber in downtown St. John’s just after noon on Sunday.