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Need for Speed P1 A1

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

Gail Smith is sad to see the Jeans Experts location in Marystown close. Smith, the store manager and long-time employee, is joined in the photo by co-worker Yvonne Slaney.

Marystown business calling it quits after more than two decades

Kimberlee Boland

Fly-in addictions clinic welcome news for Fortune woman

Michael Winters captured Peggy's Cove lighthouse on a winter's day.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Michael Winters, Peggy's Cove, N.S.

Duo Concertante is nominated for Classical Recording of the Year for "Mendelssohn and MacDonald Double Concertos"

Duo Concertante set to start tour

VIBERT: Legislature’s health committee a sham

If all of Sunday's rain was snow, how much snow would it be? - Kelly VanDellen

WEATHER U: How much snow would that rain be? Time to do some math

Rebecca Ball became a member of the Embracing Single Moms Support Group in Deer Lake when her oldest son was a baby. The group has become an important part of her life and, while no longer a single mom, she still takes part in the group and the activities it offers for single moms and their children along with her two children Jesse Ball, left, and Dominick Browne.

Group offers support and friendship to single moms in Deer Lake

Matt Colbourne is shown in a screenshot from his “Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie” video.

Corner Brooker Matt Colbourne’s ‘Counting to 100 in French’ online ...

Nicole Travers, the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation Band’s cultural resource co-ordinator, wants to fill out the map of Newfoundland with stories and images of how favorite places were traditionally used.

Qalipu band looking to tell traditional stories of how Newfoundland ...

Gander mayor Percy Farwell hoped the focus of a Central Health external review of senior management and governance would be about addressing the recruitment and retention of physicians, and not where health care services are placed.

Gander deemed uncooperative by Information and Privacy commissioner

Published 19 hours ago

If all of Sunday's rain was snow, how much snow would it be? - Kelly VanDellen

WEATHER U: How much snow would that rain be? Time to do some math

Published 3 hours ago

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: Legislature’s health committee a sham

Published 3 hours ago

Michael Winters captured Peggy's Cove lighthouse on a winter's day.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Michael Winters, Peggy's Cove, N.S.

Published 3 hours ago

News

Gail Smith is sad to see the Jeans Experts location in Marystown close. Smith, the store manager and long-time employee, is joined in the photo by co-worker Yvonne Slaney.

Marystown business calling it quits after more than two decades

Published 3 minutes ago

Muskrat Falls Inquiry Commissioner Richard LeBlanc.

Muskrat Falls Inquiry Commissioner quashes Nalcor request

Updated 2 hours ago

RNC Const. Joe Smyth will find out Feb. 22 if a provincial court judge will acquit or find him guilty of a charge of obstructing justice.

Const. Joe Smyth exaggerated facts, Crown prosecutor says

Updated 2 hours ago

One man is in custody following a bizarre incident that ended in a crash and two electrical poles cracked off. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Man who crashed plow truck in Portugal Cove deemed unfit to stand trial

Updated 2 hours ago

Sports

Chris Foley should finally see his dream of tackle football on the west coast come to reality this summer.

Tackle football program for youth will be offered in Corner Brook

Updated 9 hours ago

Ski patrollers head to the top of Smokey Mountain on the new lift.

Smokey Mountain gets a facelift

Updated 23 hours ago

Newfoundland Senior Hockey League

Newfoundland senior hockey: Breakers, Caribous share a split in Clarenville

Updated Jan 20, 2019 at 10:41 p.m.

Andrew Aylward photo

Corner Brook Royals player Scott Delaney skates down the ice in control of the puck during Friday night’s senior hockey game against the Port aux Basques Mariners at the Corner Brook Civic Centre.

Corner Brook Royals earn wins against Port aux Basques Mariners, Stephenville Jets over the weekend

Updated Jan 20, 2019 at 8 p.m.

Business

Department of Fisheries and Oceans supervisor Dwayne Holwell, left, and fisheries officer Trent Chaffey bag groceries for customers as the new initiative to end plastic bags use gets underway.

Twillingate and New World Island say goodbye to plastic bags

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

Dan Quilty gave grilled eel a try during a taste testing at Grenfell Campus’s Functional Foods Laboratory in Corner Brook on Wednesday.

West coast company and Grenfell serve up grilled eel during taste testing event

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 11:14 p.m.

The idled fish plant in Jackson’s Arm will soon be growing a variety of vegetables and maybe even cannabis someday.

St. John’s-based company hoping to grow cannabis, manufacture value-added products in former fish plant in Jackson’s Arm

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 8:12 a.m.

Stock photo

MARK VAUGHAN-JACKSON: Newfoundland and Labrador bucking the trend on business investment confidence

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Living

Rebecca Ball became a member of the Embracing Single Moms Support Group in Deer Lake when her oldest son was a baby. The group has become an important part of her life and, while no longer a single mom, she still takes part in the group and the activities it offers for single moms and their children along with her two children Jesse Ball, left, and Dominick Browne.

Group offers support and friendship to single moms in Deer Lake

Updated 9 hours ago

Hangry Man’s Breakfast

The Food Dude — Mistake and eggs

Published Jan 18, 2019 at 11 a.m.

The cast of “Revue 2018,” which is onstage at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre tonight through Sunday.

Another weird and wacky year in Newfoundland and Labrador

Published Jan 17, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Gunner Leo Knox, one of the last surviving members of the storied 166th (Newfoundland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery has passed away. He was 93-years-old and would have celebrated his 94th birthday today. - Frank Gogos/The Royal Canadian Legion

Newfoundland and Labrador Second World War veteran Leo Knox dies at 93

Updated Jan 17, 2019 at 6:48 p.m.

Opinion

Laughter is indeed a magical elixir and Nick Mercer and the Avion Players are practicing some such alchemy Jan. 20-21 at the Arts and Culture Center in Gander, says columnist Carolyn Parsons.

ART & SOUL: Laughter is the best medicine

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 5:08 p.m.

Letter to the Editor

LETTER: Local news only please!

Updated 23 hours ago

Long Range Mountains MP Gudie Hutchings

OPINION: Small business makes a big impact

Updated 22 hours ago

['letter to the editor']

LETTER: A fix for the Muskrat Falls debt

Published a day ago

Community

Community calendar

OUT & ABOUT: What's going on in central, Jan. 16

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.

Nain minor hockey players with coach William Flowers.

Nain hockey teams need a helping hand

Published Jan 16, 2019 at 5:09 p.m.

Taking part in the presentation of the car seat was, from left, big sister Miley Spearing, father Martin Spearing, mother Amy Cadwell, Dr. Willy Yogolelo (physician) and baby Maggie Jane Marlena Spearing.

New Year’s baby at the Labrador West Health Centre

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 2:57 p.m.

Travis Musseau (left) with his buddy, Ryan Pearce, who is currently battling cancer.

Countrywide support for Port aux Basques man battling cancer

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

Recent Stories

Gail Smith is sad to see the Jeans Experts location in Marystown close. Smith, the store manager and long-time employee, is joined in the photo by co-worker Yvonne Slaney.

Marystown business calling it quits after more than two decades

Kimberlee Boland

Fly-in addictions clinic welcome news for Fortune woman

Michael Winters captured Peggy's Cove lighthouse on a winter's day.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Michael Winters, Peggy's Cove, N.S.

Duo Concertante is nominated for Classical Recording of the Year for "Mendelssohn and MacDonald Double Concertos"

Duo Concertante set to start tour

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: Legislature’s health committee a sham

If all of Sunday's rain was snow, how much snow would it be? - Kelly VanDellen

WEATHER U: How much snow would that rain be? Time to do some math

Rebecca Ball became a member of the Embracing Single Moms Support Group in Deer Lake when her oldest son was a baby. The group has become an important part of her life and, while no longer a single mom, she still takes part in the group and the activities it offers for single moms and their children along with her two children Jesse Ball, left, and Dominick Browne.

Group offers support and friendship to single moms in Deer Lake

Matt Colbourne is shown in a screenshot from his “Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie” video.

Corner Brooker Matt Colbourne’s ‘Counting to 100 in French’ online video goes viral

Nicole Travers, the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation Band’s cultural resource co-ordinator, wants to fill out the map of Newfoundland with stories and images of how favorite places were traditionally used.

Qalipu band looking to tell traditional stories of how Newfoundland locations were used and enjoyed

Chris Foley should finally see his dream of tackle football on the west coast come to reality this summer.

Tackle football program for youth will be offered in Corner Brook

Rosemary Karn is looking forward to representing her province at the 2019 Canada Winter Games being held in Red Deer, Alta. next month.

Speed skating is really a part of Rosemary Karn’s love for science

The road leading into the Indian Head grounding site where a 30-year-old Stephenville man died as a result of an industrial accident in this file photo.

Company, supervisor charged in fatal incident has court appearance set over