The Newfoundland Regiment have announced their on-air team for the upcoming season, and the club committed to a local broadcasting legend and a rising voice in hockey. Seth Hyde, one of hockey’s rising stars in the press box has been named the Regiment’s play-by-play announcer, working alongside veteran Brian Rogers. Hyde, just 17-years-old, has been […]
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This summer the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture’s Spruce Budworm Early Intervention Control Program will be active along parts of Western Newfoundland and the Northern Peninsula. Activity will be subject to insect development and weather. The Spruce budworm is a destructive forest insect capable of causing widespread defoliation leading to tree mortality and growth […]
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Taylor Ash, a Level II student at Heritage Collegiate in Lethbridge, is the latest provincial recipient of the Lester B. Pearson Scholarship. The Lester B. Pearson Scholarship is valued at $50,000 over two years for pre-university study at Pearson College, a United World College in Victoria, British Columbia. The province contributes $34,000 to the scholarship, […]
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The RCMP are investigating a report concerning aircraft safety received last month, Deer Lake RCMP is asking parents to speak with children about the use of lasers. Police received a report from the Flight Service Station at Deer Lake Regional Airport indicating that a laser was intentionally pointed at the front of an aircraft upon […]
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RNC Patrol Officers responded to a residence in the downtown area of St. John’s to reports of a theft around 2:30 Friday afternoon. Police spoke to the complainant and witnesses. As a result of the investigation, officers identified a suspect who was known to them. RNC located and arrested the male at a different downtown […]
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The province-wide outdoor fire ban that prohibited the setting of fires on forest land or within 300 metres of forest land in Newfoundland and Labrador has been lifted. A Permit to Burn is required to burn brush and other materials during Forest Fire Season, which is in effect in the province until September 30. Permits […]
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Route 3 between Ruby Line and Doyle’s Road will be closed today from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. to facilitate the reinstallation of Cochrane Pond Bridge following the completion of the repairs. There will be a detour around the closed portion and motorists will need to use Ruby Line, Back Line and Doyle’s Road. Motorists […]
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It’s another bombshell for the health care system this week, as five internal medicine specialists at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital issued their resignations to Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services. The doctors are citing unsafe conditions for health care workers and their patients. But the health authority says there will be no gap in services as […]
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