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NL Two Memorial University earth scientists have discovered a 570-million-year-old fossil that is the planet’s earliest known evidence of muscle tissue and offers insight into the history of jellyfish around Newfoundland and Labrador. Found by Rod Taylor and Duncan McIlroy, Mamsetia manunis is earliest known evidence of animal muscle tissueContinue Reading

Adina Stamp, left, signed up her son Lyndon Andersen for Challenger Baseball six years ago. Stamp says the program has helped him, not just with his gross motor skills, but also with his social development. (Henrike Wilhelm/CBC)When Lyndon Andersen held a baseball bat and lifted it enough to tap a ball of theContinue Reading

Defiant Catholics in the tiny southern Avalon Peninsula community of Portugal Cove South, N.L., have changed the locks on their inactive church and are telling prospective buyers to stay away. But the church’s leader in eastern Newfoundland, Archbishop Peter Hundt, said all Catholics must “accept the hurt and consequences of theContinue Reading

NL Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier ignored the advice of staff within her department when she reopened Newfoundland and Labrador’s commercial cod fishery in June. Upping cod quotas projected to be ‘politically a victory,’ according to briefing note from minister’s office Patrick Butler · Radio-Canada · Posted: Sep 10, 2024Continue Reading

NL Jaime Ryan says she’s struggling to find a place to live because of the way Newfoundland and Labrador Housing and the province’s income support program are structured.  Income support takes too long to pay damage deposit, rent, says Jaime Ryan Heather Gillis · CBC News · Posted: Sep 09,Continue Reading

Fate brought Jonathan Hannaford and Yassir El-Tahan together on a Saturday morning nearly a decade ago. (Submitted by Yassir El-Tahan)This First Person article is the experience of Yassir El-Tahan, who lives in Bauline, N.L. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. On the morning of Aug.Continue Reading

NL Mental health educator Sarah Jones has advice about how people can manage the stress that comes with a new school year that brings new routines and responsibilities. Sarah Jones says there are resources available to help people manage their mental health Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News · Posted: SepContinue Reading

NL Newfoundland and Labrador has signed an agreement with the federal government to expand support for its provincial school lunch program, which they say will give more than 4,000 students access to a hot lunch this school year. $9.1M over 3 years will support 4,100 students, federal government says AlexContinue Reading

NL A rare pygmy sperm whale washed ashore on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula last week. Julie Huntington says while taking samples for study, the creature’s defensive ink was spilled. Julie Huntington performed a necropsy on the dead animal and it spilled ink, a defensive adaptation Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News ·Continue Reading