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Alex Kennedy - Journalist | CBC

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Feildians crowned N.L. Cup champions in inaugural island-wide soccer tournament

FeildiansSoccer Club have been crowned the inaugural winners of the N.L. Cup after a brand new island-wide tournament that brought teams from across Newfoundland together to fight for soccer glory.

Airstreams can bring you just about anywhere, and brought a caravan of campers to Corner Brook

If you know anything about campers, there's a good chance you know about Airstream. It's a highly sought-after brand, known around the world for its iconic form and aluminum build.

Labrador needs a new addictions centre now, says minister, but there will be a wait

The construction of a new addictions treatment centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay is still a ways away, but Mental Health and Addictions Minister John Abbott says it will go a long way to help people in need.

N.L.'s new justice minister says Happy Valley-Goose Bay crime is a priority

Newfoundland and Labrador's justice minister says he's taking crime concerns in Happy Valley-Goose Bay seriously, and that work is being done to improve policing resources for the community.
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One solution to racist rhetoric? Empathy in conversations about crime, says this Innu lawyer

Jolene Ashini, a lawyer in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, says conversations are needed to address simmering problems in the town. She says it's difficult to talk about crime and vandalism when there's racial profiling, and when Indigenous people do not feel safe in their own community.

N.L. wouldn't have to standardize travel nurse contracts if politicians had listened, NAPE says

The head of Newfoundland and Labrador's Association of Public Employees says the provincial health authority wouldn't have had to standardize a contract for private agency nurses had it listened to the concerns of nurses in the past.

New midwifery program will improve care while easing health-care burdens, midwife says

A new midwifery program will betterprovide prenatal, postpartum and other sexual and reproductive services in the Conception Bay North area while easing the burden onprofessionals in other health-care sectors, according to a midwife at N.L. Health Services.

This mahogany speedboat could be in a Bond film, but was actually owned by a legendary N.L. adventurer

A recently donated speedboat to a Marystown museum is getting a lot of eyes on it, thanks to its connection to a legendary Newfoundland seafarer.

Here's what the candidates of the Waterford Valley byelection say they bring to the table

Voters in the St. John's district of Waterford Valley will elect a new MHAnext week, and the three candidates are making their pitches to represent them.

You lucky dog: Meet a pooch that fell off a cliff, and lived to bark another day

What began as a play date in a sheep pasture turned into a miraculousrescue effort for a dogwho survived an estimated 70-foot drop off a cliff and was rescued earlier this week.