Month: December 2023

2 years ago

St. John’s seeking Historian or Archival Expert to join Built Heritage Experts Panel

The City of St. John’s is seeking a Historian or Archival Expert to fill a vacancy on the Built Heritage Experts Panel. The Built Heritage Experts Panel provides expertise, opinions and perspectives about built heritage, its protection and designation in the city. The deadline for submission of applications has been extended from December 1, 2023 […]

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2 years ago

FireSmart Canada Accepting Award Applications

The application process for Wildfire Community Preparedness Day awards is now open. Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is a national initiative observed each year on the first Saturday in May and encourages citizens to take actions that increase their home, neighbourhood and community’s resilience to wildfire. Awards of $500 are presented to municipalities and community groups […]

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2 years ago

Public Engagement for New Climate Change Action Plans Extended

Since November 1 the Department of Environment and Climate Change has been seeking input from partners, stakeholders, Indigenous Governments and Organizations and the public on the development of two new climate change plans. The plans are the Climate Change Mitigation Action Plan, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan, to […]

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2 years ago

Qalipu Band Council Selects Jenny Brake as Acting Chief

The Qalipu Band Council met this past weekend to select one of the two regional Vice-Chiefs to stand in as Acting Chief. The role of Chief was left vacant following the resignation of Brendan Mitchell as he prepared to take up the role of Regional Chief for Newfoundland with the Assembly of First Nations. Western […]

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2 years ago

Snow for southern and eastern Newfoundland today into early Tuesday

A weak area of low pressure will track south of Atlantic Canada today and tonight and will bring light to moderate snow to southern and eastern Newfoundland as it does so. This is the same area of low pressure I talked about last week, but the timing shifted from 12 to 18 hours from what […]

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2 years ago

Mostly good driving conditions across the province

Roads are mostly bare and dry with fair to good visibility. There are a few icy sections in central Newfoundland. Roads are snow-covered across Labrador and on the Great Northern Peninsula north of Port Saunders. The MV Kamutik W is in service but off schedule and the MV Marine Trader is in service but off […]

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2 years ago

RNC arrest man carrying brass knuckles in St. John’s

On Sunday afternoon, RNC was responding to a separate complaint in a commercial business on Kenmount Road in St. John’s when they located a male carrying a set of brass knuckles. The 26-year-old was arrested and charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and breach of a Court Order. The accused was released to appear […]

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2 years ago

Major telephone outage in Deer Lake and Northern Peninsula

UPDATE: The outage has been resolved. EARLIER: There is currently a major telephone outage affecting phone lines in the areas of Deer Lake throughout the Northern Peninsula. RCMP detachment and other phone lines in these areas may be inaccessible due to a provider issue. In case of an emergency, continue to call 911.

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2 years ago

Tens of thousands turn out for downtown St. John’s Christmas parade

An estimated crowd of 55,000 line the streets of downtown St. John’s Sunday to watch the annual Christmas parade. NTV’s Bailey Howard reports.

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2 years ago

No change in mil rate in Paradise municipal budget

Paradise held the line on its mil rate in its annual municipal budget.

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