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(From left) Latvian ambassador Kaspars Ozoliņš, Lithuanian ambassador Darius Skusevičius and Estonian ambassador Margus Rava visited Happy Valley-Goose Bay and St. John's. Sanuda Ranawake • The Telegram

Ambassadors from Baltic nations Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia visit St. John's, Goose Bay airbase

Sanuda Ranawake Local Journalism Initiative Reporter · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated 16 hours ago |4 min read

The ambassadors from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in Newfoundland and Labrador this week. The trio toured Labrador – which involved a visit to 5 Wing Goose Bay – followed by a trip to St. John’s, which included an engagement at Memorial ...

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‘Emotionally I have been broken,’ said N.L. social worker assaulted by a teen she was working with

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 17 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

A different person, no longer trusting and no longer carefree, is how a social worker who was brutally beaten by a youth at an individualized living arrangement on the west coast now describes herself. “Emotionally I have been broken,” the woman said ...

Construction on the final phase of the Team Gushue Highway has been delayed by a couple of months. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Team Gushue Highway completion held up by several factors, including bureaucracy

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated 17 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

The final phase of the Team Gushue Highway construction is behind schedule and, according to documents obtained by The Telegram through an access to information request, the federal government appears to be part of what is holding it up. In a March ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

Tim Krochak/The Chronicle Herald

Mackerel bait fishery opening in Atlantic Canada ‘a slap in the face,’ says Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters’ union

Gary Kean |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

The federal government labels it a good news story, but not everyone is happy about news of a mackerel bait fishery opening this spring. During a virtual press conference on Thursday, April 25, Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard Minister ...

Housing Minister Fred Hutton. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram file photo

Schrödinger's House (of Assembly) cat: N.L. shelter standards expected by June

Juanita Mercer · Multi-media journalist |Updated 18 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

Politicians don’t usually spend a great deal of time fussing over physics, but it did come up briefly in the provincial legislature on Thursday. It was clear that not all of the MHAs were familiar with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger ...

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Supreme Court of Canada to hear travel ban appeal of Newfoundlander

SaltWire Network |Updated 18 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday, April 25, it has granted leave to hear an appeal connected with a COVID-19 related travel ban put in place in Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ...

CBC photo - Bob Cole has been a fixture on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada for 50 years, part of what Robin Short says is the Holy Trinity of hockey broadcasters — Cole, Foster Hewitt and Danny Gallivan.

UPDATED: Thanks for the memories, Bob: Newfoundland hockey broadcaster Bob Cole has died at age 90

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 16 hours ago |10 min read Premium content

“Here, we go on a Saturday night.” Bob Cole, the voice of a generation of hockey fans, died Wednesday in St. John's at age 90. On Saturday nights, those fans would listen and watch as the boy from Topsail narrated their favourite teams playing their ...

Retired hockey broadcaster Bob Cole.

Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90

Lance Hornby · Postmedia News |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

Bob Cole, an iconic voice of Hockey Night In Canada , has died at age 90. The man who called so many huge games on radio and then television, from the 1972 Canada-Russia series, to Red Army versus the Philadelphia Flyers, to Stanley Cup wins by ...

A 26-year-old man is facing drug trafficking charges after he fled from police but was eventually caught on Sunday night outside Halifax.

Newfoundland woman banned from driving picks up new charges after speeding from Bonavista RCMP

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

A 23-year-old woman is facing several charges after allegedly speeding away from police while prohibited from driving in Bonavista on April 22. Mounties received reports of a prohibited driver on the road along Route 230 near Melrose and located the ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

Tim Krochak/The Chronicle Herald

DFO opening mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but commercial fishery remains closed

Gary Kean |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has announced the opening of a mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec. The 470-tonne personal-use bait fishery will open this spring, but the Atlantic mackerel commercial fishery in ...

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