St. John's (Newfoundland & Labrador) Newsletter
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Above-average summer helps St. John's to break this temperature record
18 Sep 2025 23:16 GMT
Published on Sep. 18, 2025, 3:41 PM
The capital of Newfoundland and Labrador has seen an above-average summer, surpassing the average number of days above 20 degrees and setting a new record.
St. John's, N.L., set a new record on Thursday as …
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QMJHL roundup: Newfoundland Regiment continue perfect start with win over Wildcats
20 Sep 2025 03:04 GMT
ST. JOHN'S —
Another night, another game-winning goal for Louis-François Bélanger.
Bélanger scored at 1:49 in overtime to help the Newfoundland Regiment beat the Moncton Wildcats on consecutive nights with a 5-4 win Friday in the Quebec Maritimes …
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Newfoundland Regiment earn first win in franchise history during home opener
19 Sep 2025 16:17 GMT
Energy was sky high on Thursday night as the Newfoundland Regiment took to the ice in St. John's, for the city's first Quebec-Maritimes Junior Hockey League game in more than 6,000 days.
A sold-out crowd flooded into Mary Brown's Centre as soon …
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PCs promise big tax cuts, while NDP focus on Labrador travel costs
18 Sep 2025 20:59 GMT
Sunny skies and cheers from a few dozen supporters greeted Tony Wakeham on Thursday as he arrived in Stephenville for a third day of campaigning — once again centred on big money promises, with few details about how the party would pay for them.
After days …
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4 years after 2 men were lost at sea, family and friends demand more search and rescue resources in Labrador
17 Sep 2025 21:37 GMT
Protesters gathered outside the Canadian Coast Guard's Maritime rescue sub-centre in St. John's on Wednesday, calling for a stronger search and rescue presence along coastal Labrador.
The protest marked the fourth anniversary of the loss of …
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Q&A: This new book chronicles the love lives of cruise ship workers — and the babies that result
21 Sep 2025 11:58 GMT
Jen Winsor of St. John's has a lot of takeaways from her time working aboard cruise ships.
But none are perhaps as lasting as Gabriel — her eight-year-old son.
Winsor was freshly single in 2015 when she took a contract with a cruise line to manage arts …
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All aboard! N.L. man recreating historic train stations, with sound coming soon
21 Sep 2025 09:34 GMT
For years, a Newfoundland and Labrador train enthusiast has been recreating long-shuttered train stations in miniature, and he has big expansion plans — including voiced announcements that travellers would have heard decades ago.
Over the course of the …
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During a low-key 1st week on the campaign trail, Wakeham banks on big promises to turn N.L. blue
21 Sep 2025 09:34 GMT
For the Progressive Conservatives, the first week on the campaign trail was devoted to media announcements and small events with small crowds in southern, central and western Newfoundland.
On Saturday, during an announcement in Harbour Breton, with less …
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Candidates stuck with thousands of election flyers after postal workers ban delivery
20 Sep 2025 19:12 GMT
Erin Furlong didn't expect to have thousands of campaign leaflets left piled in her front porch.
But when the postal workers' union stopped delivering flyers this week – she was left in the lurch.
"I have a stack of boxes that is as high as I …
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Investor files new $2.3M lawsuit targeting company that owns Stephenville airport
20 Sep 2025 11:04 GMT
There are more legal woes for the besieged airport in Stephenville, again linked to the Saskatchewan lender whose cash infusion was key to its acquisition by Ottawa businessman Carl Dymond two years ago.
Matthew Poppel filed a lawsuit at Newfoundland and …