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Province should expect feds to push cuts: Vardy

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Bent steel and broken lives: why do we drive too fast?

A car plunged off the CN viaduct in St. John's Saturday night, bursting into flames and exploding. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Vehicle plunges off Pitts Memorial overpass in St. John's, bursts into ...

Since 2014, videos of Bonita Hussey cooking in the kitchen of her home in Spaniard’s Bay have received over 820,000 views.

Spaniard’s Bay cook brings Newfoundland cuisine to large online ...

VIBERT: More long term care beds in Nova Scotia would open bottleneck

Russia is going to test the idea of retreating to its own closed intranet system. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Russia planning solo mission in cyberspace

N.L. sharing in growing gig economy

Barry Burgess photographed this starry scene Feb. 12 in Indian Fields, Shelburne County, N.S.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Starry morning

Chelsea Pugh spotted a very early sign of spring in her backyard in Cole Harbour, N.S. Believe it or not, these dedicated daffodils were photographed Jan. 27!

GRANDMA SAYS: If Easter is late, so is spring

A house on Hilltop Lane in Portugal Cove was completely destroyed by fire Friday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Fire destroys Portugal Cove home Friday night

Joe Tremblett worked at the AbitibiBowater paper mill from 1972 to its closure in 2009. Here he stands next to the machine he spent so much of his life working on the day of the closure.

When the last whistle blew: Grand Falls-Windsor marks 10th anniversary of mill closure

Updated Feb 13, 2019 at 2:35 p.m.

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: More long term care beds in Nova Scotia would open bottleneck

Published a day ago

Barry Burgess photographed this starry scene Feb. 12 in Indian Fields, Shelburne County, N.S.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Starry morning

Published a day ago

Chelsea Pugh spotted a very early sign of spring in her backyard in Cole Harbour, N.S. Believe it or not, these dedicated daffodils were photographed Jan. 27!

GRANDMA SAYS: If Easter is late, so is spring

Published a day ago

News

A car plunged off the CN viaduct in St. John's Saturday night, bursting into flames and exploding. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Vehicle plunges off Pitts Memorial overpass in St. John's, bursts into flames Saturday night

Updated 11 hours ago

Tina Putt is handed a white carnation during the 37th annual Ocean Ranger memorial and prayer service at St. Pius X Church in St. John’s Friday. Putt, who lost her father, Douglas Putt, in the 1982 disaster, is one of many family members of the oil rig’s 84 lost crewmen who attend the service every year.

Ocean Ranger families united in grief

Published a day ago

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MacIssac out at Nalcor Energy

Published a day ago

The courtroom on Friday, before the start of Day 10 of Allan Potter’s murder trial in St. John’s. Sitting (from left) are defence lawyers Randy Piercey and Jon Noonan, and prosecutors Erin Matthews and Sheldon Steeves. Behind them, Potter stands in the dock, awaiting Justice Garrett Handrigan and the jury.

Potter offered job as hitman: agent

Published a day ago

Sports

Rugby

U.K. native happy to help grow the sport of rugby in Corner Brook

Published a day ago

Charlie Russell with his dog racing team in the 2016 Labrador Winter Games.

Mushers considering boycotting Labrador Winter Games

Updated Feb 12, 2019 at 3:27 p.m.

Tyler Green will represent Newfoundland and Labrador at the Canada Games in table tennis.

Clarenville table tennis player to represent province at Canada Games

Updated Feb 12, 2019 at 2:50 p.m.

Clarenville Velocity gymnasts, from left, MacKenzie Parsons, Erin Russell, Rayah Vokey, Jordyn Peddle and Lilly Bennett.

Medals abound for Clarenville Velocity gymnasts at Dream Big meet

Published Feb 12, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

Business

N.L. sharing in growing gig economy

Updated 23 hours ago

File

N.L. business communicators chapter wins international awards

Published Feb 11, 2019 at 6:16 p.m.

The hope is that the Oceans Holyrood Initiative will one day make the Conception Bay community a world leader in the blue economy. Pictured, from the left, are town CAO Gary Corbett, economic development officer Marjorie Gibbons and Mayor Gary Goobie.

Holyrood makes a big play in ocean technology sector

Updated Feb 11, 2019 at 8:21 a.m.

SNC-Lavalin, Dragados and Pennecon reached a milestone on Tuesday night with the West White Rose concrete gravity base structure’s first concrete slip pour completed.

Husky delays tow-out of West White Rose Concrete Gravity Structure

Published Feb 08, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.

Living

Since 2014, videos of Bonita Hussey cooking in the kitchen of her home in Spaniard’s Bay have received over 820,000 views.

Spaniard’s Bay cook brings Newfoundland cuisine to large online audience

Published a day ago

Longtime Sackville Tribune-Post reporter Wallie Sears works from his home office in Sackville last week. At the age of 90, Sears has been covering events in the Tantramar region since the late 1950s.

Freelancing for more than six decades, Sackville's Wallie Sears remains committed and passionate reporter

Updated Feb 14, 2019 at 1:48 p.m.

Your first step to free up lost space is to discard and donate items you no longer need or want. - Getty Images/iStockphoto

Live in a tight space? Try these tips to maximize spatial efficiency

Updated Feb 13, 2019 at 9:35 a.m.

Bessie Reid’s hat and scarf look just as good today as when she knit them many years ago. Reid calls the hat and scarf the uniform of the Corner Brook Winter Carnival.

Carnival pride: Corner Brook woman still wears the hat and scarf she knit over 40 years ago

Updated Feb 12, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Opinion

Courtesy of the Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society
Early 1960s in front of mill.

EDITORIAL: Grand Falls-Windsor is more than a mill

Updated Feb 13, 2019 at 8:38 a.m.

The Liberal Party of Canada seems to have returned to its traditional modus operandi. —

EDITORIAL: Liberal sleight of hand

Published Feb 15, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Does Canada want to become known as a country that not only ignores bribes, but is open to them, Russell Wangersky asks. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Canada shouldn’t stand for corruption

Published Feb 15, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Don’t let writing letters to the editor become a dying art.

Elizabeth Penashue: Development damaging Innu way of life

Updated Feb 14, 2019 at 9:25 a.m.

Community

Members of the Marystown Lions Club recently dropped by the municipal centre where Mayor Sam Synard signed a proclamation for the organization’s upcoming Winter Carnival. Taking part were (from left) carnival patron Loretta Lewis, Lions Club president Edna Power, Synard, and carnival chair Clyde Anstey.

Marystown Lions Club geared up for another Winter Carnival

Published Feb 15, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

For the second season in a row, Wild Cove senior Larry Bailey says he’s been forced out of the of the recreational scallop fishery. Revisions to the fisheries definition by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans prevent him from using a motorized capstan to hoist the drag rake, and the 84-year-old says he’s no longer able to raise it by hand.

Wild Cove senior sells boat and fishing gear, unable to haul by hand

Published Feb 06, 2019 at 3:33 p.m.

The ‘dummy downhill’ event at 2018 Wintertainment last February.

Clarenville preps for 2019 Wintertainment

Updated Feb 06, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

10 years ago
From the Jan. 29, 2009 edition
Hard evidence. Neal Johnson displays the evidence of a northern cod come back. During the turbot fishery last fall, there were many cod like this one tangled in the turbot nets 100 or more miles offshore.

Throwback Thursday — Looking back at the stories that made the headlines in The Packet from the Jan. 29, 2009 edition

Published Feb 05, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

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A car plunged off the CN viaduct in St. John's Saturday night, bursting into flames and exploding. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Vehicle plunges off Pitts Memorial overpass in St. John's, bursts into flames Saturday night

Since 2014, videos of Bonita Hussey cooking in the kitchen of her home in Spaniard’s Bay have received over 820,000 views.

Spaniard’s Bay cook brings Newfoundland cuisine to large online audience

Russia is going to test the idea of retreating to its own closed intranet system. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Russia planning solo mission in cyberspace

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: More long term care beds in Nova Scotia would open bottleneck

N.L. sharing in growing gig economy

Barry Burgess photographed this starry scene Feb. 12 in Indian Fields, Shelburne County, N.S.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Starry morning

Chelsea Pugh spotted a very early sign of spring in her backyard in Cole Harbour, N.S. Believe it or not, these dedicated daffodils were photographed Jan. 27!

GRANDMA SAYS: If Easter is late, so is spring

A house on Hilltop Lane in Portugal Cove was completely destroyed by fire Friday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Fire destroys Portugal Cove home Friday night

Dr. John Dornan, a Corner Brook native and Memorial University graduate, is an endocrinologist and chief of staff for Horizon Health Network in New Brunswick.

Artificial pancreas will revolutionize diabetes treatment, doctor says

Friends Selena Clarke, 9, left, and Peyton Vokey, 10, had lots of fun at the party in the park to open Corner Brook Winter Carnival at Margaret Bowater Park on Friday night.

Corner Brook opens Winter Carnival

“Crippled” playwright and actor Paul David Power (right) in a scene with Pat Dempsey, who plays Evan. 8 p.m. “Crippled” debuts at the LSPU Hall today at 8 p.m. Power shares his experiences of growing up with a physical disability and grief after loss. Visit www.crippled.ca for more information.

Theatre company barred from U.S.

Members of the Celtic Fiddlers are ready for their latest album release for its 6th disk “Ready for the Storm” at Quidi Vidi Brewery on Saturday, Feb. 23 from 8-10 p.m. Members of the group shown at a recent performance at The Rooms in St. John’s includes (from left) Rosemary Lawton, Jon Hicks, Riley Ledrew, Carissa Abbott, Evan AuCoin, Cassandra Abbott, Tiana Parker, Liam Ryan, Erin O'Brien, Alyssa Hicks, Korona Brophy and Keirsten Maloney. Missing are Cassy Palmer and Kaitlyn Burke.

Celtic Fiddlers ready to launch new album ‘Ready for the Storm’