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N.L. government provides $7M in funding for Year of the Arts inititatives
Through its Year of the Arts initiatives and as part of Budget 2024, Newfoundland and Labrador is allocating $2 million to establish a one-time arts infrastructure and programming fund. This money aims to enhance existing arts infrastructure and ...
Former RCMP officer charged with perjury, obstructing justice
Former RCMP officer Paul Durdle has been charged with perjury and obstructing justice following a SIRT-NL investigation into a June 2023 incident in St. John’s involving Durdle’s testimony at the trial of another RCMP officer at Supreme Court of ...
Telegram staff named finalists in five Atlantic Journalism Awards, win gold in another category
SaltWire’s editorial team at The Telegram in St. John’s have been named finalists in five 2023 Atlantic Journalism Awards categories and took home a gold in a sixth category. Photographer Keith Gosse, a previous winner of multiple AJAs, adds another ...
Missing fish? Accuracy of DFO’s latest Northern cod stock assessment called into question by harvesters and processors
Confirmation that Northern cod is still in the cautious zone is good news for the fishing industry, but harvesters and processors think the numbers may be even better than what the science is indicating. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans ...
'The K-12 public education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is in triage mode': NLTA
What does violence in Newfoundland and Labrador schools look like? It looks like the girl with a concussion who is missing class this week because an aggressive student hurt her at school. It looks like the teacher who ended up in the emergency room ...
First Light receives funding for Indigenous language program development
First Light St. John’s Friendship Centre has received $762,875 in federal funding to create new programs to teach and re-educate Indigenous languages. The majority of the funding, $567,875, comes through the Indigenous Languages and Culture Program ...
N.L. tech sector gets provincial funding boost for skills development
The Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government has committed $634,000 to help bolster skills development in the provincial tech industry. Funding will be invested in the Centre for Research and Innovation over three years to create ...
Site announced for new Deer Lake Regional Health Centre
A new hospital for Newfoundland’s Humber Valley region will be nestled between the Trans-Canada Highway and the picturesque Humber River. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and Health Minister Tom Osborne were on the island’s west coast ...
Dates and quotas set for Newfoundland and Labrador snow crab fishery, but price not yet resolved
The much-anticipated start dates and quotas for the 2024 snow crab season have been announced, but how much harvesters will be paid for their catches remains to be seen. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced details of the season ...
Nurses still waiting eight months later for benefits signed in collective agreement; NL Health Services says coming soon
The Registered Nurses’ Union of Newfoundland & Labrador (RNUNL) says its members have yet to receive all the benefits negotiated in its collective agreement signed eight months ago. “This failure to implement our collective agreement is ...