The Western Star

For Lorie Duff, horses have always been a way of life, taking her from the dairy farm in Topsail where she grew up, to Ottawa, and soon, to Mongolia where she will compete in the Gobi Desert Cup. Duff started riding at Avalon Equestrian Centre and ...

A Forest Day Camp is being held this week at the Blow-Me-Down Trails in Corner Brook. There will be another edition of the play-based kids camp organized by Sapling Forest School at the site next week and a larger one at the Grenfell Campus site ...

Twenty-four immigrants took the oath of Canadian citizenship at a ceremony at Corner Brook’s city hall Tuesday morning. Another citizenship ceremony will take place there this morning at 10 a.m. Paul Starling, originally from ...

The Town of Massey Drive held a reception for members of the Run The Rock crew from the Canadian Navy frigate HMCS St. John’s during a short stopover on the west coast of the province Tuesday afternoon. The crew has raised more than ...

JOE BATT’S ARM, N.L. – Fogo Island is getting ready to have a community conversation about food. Home cooks, growers, chefs, visitors and fishers alike with gather for the inaugural Food Circle at the Big Church in Joe Batt’s Arm ...

Most of the regular buskers in downtown St. John’s are musicians, but the Buskers Festival coming to downtown St. John’s from Aug. 3-5, featuring international and local performers, will focus on acrobats and other ...

Maggie O’Brien’s book “Star’s Island” will be relaunching with new illustrations by Veselina Tomova and sketches by Cliff George on Thursday. The idea for “Star’s Island” came from three ponies in ...

PORT UNION, N.L. – Alexander Liu, a lecturer in paleobiology with the University of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, will be taking part in a special presentation in Port Union this week. Liu will be explaining the ...

PINSENT’S ARM, N.L. – Harrison Campbell of Pinsent’s Arm is one of five people recently honoured by the provincial government with a Seniors of Distinction Award. Harrison was humble about the recognition. “I’m not ...

Run the Rock 2018, the relay run across Newfoundland in support of Children's Wish Foundation involving runners who are all sailors from HMCS St. John’s is underway and stopped in Stephenville on Monday afternoon. The runners will be ...