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  Premier Tony Wakeham says “the report makes it clear that on issues ranging from pricing to transmission rights to the restricted ability of NL to access our own electricity for economic development, to the saddling of our province with long term debt…there are credible and realistic alternatives to the terms of the inherited MOU.” 

• Fox's General Store owner talks about the decision to move to seasonal operation

  Michelle Payne says the writing was on the wall during the Covid pandemic, and cutting store hours was a hard and heart breaking decision.

• RCMP pull unfit vehicle off the road in Burgeo and suspended driver caught without insurance or registration

  The vehicle which the 70-year-old man was driving was impounded. 

• Corner Brook bulk garbage spring clean up is nearly half way done

  Mayor Linda Chaisson says about 600 pickups out of 1400 appointments are complete and over 300 tonnes were brought to the landfill on the days the city paid tipping fees.

• Water levels are at an acceptable level in Deer Lake but officials are watching the situation

  Levels along the Humber River and the lake were high last week, prompting a flood watch.