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During public event, Danny Breen acknowledged issues as residents challenged him on safety, development, council fights, and ...

Health and Community Services (HCS) Minister Lela Evans and Premier Tony Wakeham. On Saturday HCS said it had asked Deloitte to review the entire Health Human Resources Report, which the province paid ...

About three dozen community members gathered on July 11 to create posters for St. John’s’ inaugural Dyke March, scheduled for ...

Equinor says controversial project still on track, as concerned residents ask oil execs tough questions during public ...

Etetish Gregoire and Marie Anne Rich carry spruce boughs near Davis Inlet in the 1960s. Submitted. The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is contradicting accepted historical knowledge and oral ...

The defunding of Memorial is not a story of fiscal misfortune or demographic bad luck. It is one of a deliberate, decades-long ideological project whose purpose is the transformation of public ...

Nicholas Flowers cleans a seal skin in Inotsiavik’s tupik in Hopedale. Frey Blake-Pijogge. In a tupik (tent) next to the Inotsiavik Centre shed in Hopedale, Nicholas Flowers is preparing a sealskin.

The histories of Indigenous peoples across Canada have been repeatedly told and studied from a settler-colonial perspective. This is in part because the historical narrative has been informed by the ...

Registered Nurses’ Union NL President Yvette Coffey says the PC’s commitment to action on staffing issues “is encouraging.” RNU / YouTube. The union representing nurses in the province says the PC ...

This article discusses residential school experiences, which some readers may find distressing. To get to the post office in North West River, for years Joanna Michel would pass the residential school ...

It seems the wind has been taken out of the sails of Newfoundland and Labrador’s wind-to-hydrogen hype. So what does this mean for the province’s renewable energy transition? Reader-supported ...