The Telegram (St. John’s)
Mom who lost newborn calls for better pediatric training in rural areas
When Kayla Hickey left the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) with her newborn twins on Nov. 10, 2023, they had a clean bill of health. Little did the Dunville woman know that just 25 days later, her firstborn son, Declan Bowering, would die from a...
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RUSTING HISTORY
The wreck of the whaling ship S.S. Charcot sits rusting on the shore of Conception Harbour. The ship was built in Norway in 1923 and sank at this location in 1970 after breaking its moorings during a storm. Two of its sister ships, the S.S. Southern...
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LIGHTING UP THE SEASON
A home on Pond Road in Kelligrews, C.B.S. is decked out in Christmas lights causing many people to stop by to enjoy the scene.
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ONLY DAYS AWAY!
Santa Claus waves to children lining the streets of downtown St. John’s during the Annual Downtown St. John’s Christmas Parade that was held Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025.
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Community rallies around mom battling brain tumour
When 31-year-old Kendelle Joy left work on Nov. 6 to visit her ophthalmologist, she expected a routine follow-up after months of headaches and bouts of blurred vision. Instead, she was told a mass had been found on her CT scan — news delivered to her...
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‘I AM A NEWFOUNDLANDER’
It’s always been Rebecca Mcdonald’s plan to become a physician. “I’ve wanted to do it for a long time. It’s very meaningful for me. I have been preparing for this application for years,” said the Portugal Cove-st. Philip’s resident. She feels...
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A 168-unit housing project proposed for St. John’s
A new cluster development may soon be in the works near the intersection of Higgins Line and Portugal Cove Road in St. John’s. St. John’s City Hall has received a development application from GLD Home Ltd. seeking to rezone the 2.8 hectares of...
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CHURCH TOPPER
It’s 36 feet tall and weighs 7,000 pounds and once completed this new steeple will be lifted to its place on the roof of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Cathedral in Corner Brook. The new aluminum structure, that will be covered in steel siding, is...
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N.L. foster parents warn of funding crisis
When Diane and Garry Hillier became empty nesters nearly two decades ago, the house suddenly felt too quiet. Their two grown children, Garry’s from a previous relationship, had moved out to attend post-secondary school. The couple, who live in...
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Judge reverses order allowing fraudster to access swindled cash
A St. John’s judge has reversed his decision allowing admitted fraudster Charles Gillen to use victims’ money to pay legal bills, saying it would make the court complicit in Gillen’s attempt at deception. “Justice would not be served if I agreed to...
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ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE DIRECTOR PLEADS FOR FUNDING
Vida Nova Recovery director Mark Lane doesn’t sleep much since opening the premiere addiction treatment center outside Holyrood last month. It’s not hard to understand why: due to a lack of funding, the facility has six to eight spots it’s unable to...
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A look at the real cost of living in St. John’s
Jennifer Pelley moved from a house to a small one-bedroom apartment last year, a shift she describes as a “huge adjustment.” After more than two decades of marriage, living alone meant relearning daily routines and managing expenses on a single...
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‘BE BOLD, YELL, MAKE A SCENE’
For Amy Walsh, a bartender working late-night shifts in St. John’s, a routine walk home can quickly turn into a tense test of vigilance. At 2 a.m. on Sept. 21, she experienced what she describes as a frightening encounter with a stranger while walking...
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SUNNY ADVENTURE
James Marshall, 5, wanders through a field of sunflowers at Lesters Farm on Brookfield Road in the St. John’s area Monday, Sept. 22, as he and his parents visited the farm’s Field of Fun.
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PEOPLE POWER
Ever wonder how fast you could move a 30,000 kilogram vehicle with just people power? Twelve teams of ambitious fundraisers got the chance to challenge each other by pulling a St. John’s International Airport fire truck 75 metres during the Hope Air...
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Set perfect in N.L.
A house that once stood on a hillside in Cape Broyle has been taken apart, transported and reassembled in Old Cape St. Francis after Netflix purchased it for a television project. E v a n O ’ B r i e n , w h o s e great-grandfather’s cousin Ernest...
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‘I’M SICK OF LIVING THIS LIFE’
Ashley Cassell, a 39-yearold woman from Cormack, Newfoundland, is struggling to get her mental health needs met. Between longstanding anxiety, past trauma, her father’s recent unexpected death, and her husband’s ongoing recovery from cardiac arrest,...
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HIGH LEVEL DISCUSSIONS
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan (left) and Quebec Premier François Legault meet at the NL premier’s office at Confederation Building in St. John’s on Tuesday morning Aug. 26, 2025. Legault and team were in St. John’s to further discussions...
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SAFE ON SECOND!
Newfoundland and Labrador player Callie Ash slides safely into second base as British Columbia second baseman Logan Grant tries to catch the throw from home during women’s baseball action at the 2025 Canada Games. See more coverage in
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NEWFOUNDLAND PRIDE
Members of team Newfoundland and Labrador wave provincial flags during the opening ceremonies for the games at the Mary Brown’s Centre Aug. 9 as the Canada Games officially opened in St. John’s. See full coverage at Thetelegram.com.
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WILDFIRES THREATEN COMMUNITIES
The first week of August 2025 saw wildfires in Conception Bay North, and at Holyrood and Conception Bay South, lead to evacuations of many residents. There’s been a record number of wildfires in Newfoundland and Labrador this summer with 191 recorded...
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FRIGHTENING HIGHWAY EXPERIENCE
Brittany Holloway, a nurse from Marystown, was travelling with her partner, Andrew Walsh, his 13-year-old sister, and their 18-month-old daughter when they encountered a man lying in the middle of the Burin Peninsula Highway. The incident occurred on...
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‘I FEEL BETRAYED BY MY GOVERNMENT’: CORNER BROOK LPN FACING LOSS OF LONG TERM RENTAL HOME
Janet Brett has spent 18 years working as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in Newfoundland and Labrador, raising a family in her long-term rental housing. Now, after more than a decade in the same home, she faces the prospect of displacement, a...
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A LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
What should have been an ordinary day on the set of Hudson & Rex turned tragic July 7 when film rigger Andrew Strickland fell 10 feet from a catwalk at the studio in St. John’s. The impact left him unconscious, and he was rushed to the hospital, where...
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HOLY COD B’YS
Jigging and hauling in a big cod in a boat bobbing on the ocean is fun, but Cameron Schlieve loves the extra exhilaration of reeling one in from the beach. Social media was flooded with photos of folks taking advantage of the opening weekend of the...
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GIANT IN THE HARBOUR
The Holland America Line cruise ship Volendam sits docked in St. John’s on one of several visits it will make to the capital city during this year’s cruise schedule. The ship can carry just over 1,800 passengers. The city is scheduled to have about...
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‘HE CALLED 250 TIMES IN ONE DAY’
Candice Kielly was 22 years old when she took a job at No Name Pizza in St. John’s. She never imagined a casual customer — a cousin of one of her coworkers — would become the source of such intense fear that she’d be afraid to walk home. The ordeal...
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MUN student speaks out after alleged downtown attack
A night out celebrating a friend’s birthday turned into a traumatic experience for 20-year-old Memorial University student Sara Young, who says she was violently attacked by a stranger in downtown St. John’s on Feb. 15. The alleged assault took place...
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DRIVE THROUGH NESTING
A seagull sits on its nest as its mate keeps an eye on tra c going through the drivethrough of a St. John’s co ee shop riday, June 6, 2025. The pair built the nest in an nd unusual location, directly next to a menu board for the restaurant. It’s not...
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LITTLE GIRL WHO SPENT 22 HOURS IN THE WOODS ALONE, FOUND SAFE
After getting home from school on Friday, May 30, Adalyn Skinner was outside playing with her grandmother when she made a mad dash into the woods. “She got home from school by special transportation, we call it, and my mom normally looks after her for...
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WOMAN HAD TO FIGHT FOR TREATMENT FOR GROWTH ON NECK
Nearly 48,000 people in NL remain without a family physician. For a long time, Courtney Davis was one of them. And for her, not having a doctor nearly proved tragic. It almost cost the NL woman her voice, and it could have been far worse than...
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Caden Monteith, 16, doesn't let anything stop him
Sixteen years ago, Todie Winter handed her two-and-a-halfmonth-old baby to an anesthesiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) in Toronto, where he underwent a six-hour heart surgery. The memory of her baby boy in the tiniest hospital...
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U.S. police release body cam video of fatal shooting
Police in California have released video footage of the moment an officer shot Geoff Stirling Jr. six times after an altercation during a traffic stop, killing him. Stirling’s family, including his father, NTV CEO Scott Stirling, have issued a...
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‘I couldn’t keep going down this path’
“From the time I was a teenager until I was arrested, I wholeheartedly believed that I would eventually die by suicide. I just didn’t know when, but I thought for sure that that’s how I’m going to die,” said Brittany Stockley. The 35-year-old’s life...
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Parents fight for early childhood support
Dawn White wouldn’t change anything about her son, Finn Walsh, other than the support he’s able to receive. Finn, who will soon turn four years old, has struggled with speech and communication since he was around 18 months old. White believed her son...
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NL’S tourism industry hoping for a bumper season
While the current geopolitical climate is hallmarked by plenty of anti-united States sentiment, the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism industry is throwing out the welcome mat for Americans who want to visit. In fact, it seems the province is on the...
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St. John’s murder suspect appears in court
“Are you Ibrahim Hussein?” Provincial Court Judge Harold Porter asked Friday morning to a 19-yearold sitting in the prisoner’s dock, accompanied by sheriff ’s officers. The teenager was practically unrecognizable compared to the mugshot police had...
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’I JUST NEED THE FINGER GONE’
Janice Coles’s fingertip is causing her so much pain that she asked her husband to cut it off. Not only is she experiencing excruciating pain that has affected her ability to work or even lift a glass, but her fingertip is black and looks like it’s...
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STACKED AND READY
Vehicles drive past pipes stacked at the construction site of the final phase of the Team Gushue Highway at Heavy Tree Road. The fully completed highway will help ease traffic concerns in St. John’s and Mount Pearl.
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‘There’s nothing here for you’
For the last 30 years, Corner Brook native Tammy Fudge-ralph has sacrificed everything in her life in her pursuit to find effective treatment for her severe eating disorder. From leaving her loving family behind for months at a time to seek...
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‘I thought I broke my neck’
Chad Hickey has driven across Gravels Pond in Port au Port on a snowmobile so many times before that he never once thought that a little ride on Feb. 21 would result in him being seriously injured. His injuries, though, had nothing to do with the...
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’I don’t feel we got justice’
The world can’t know his name or face, but it can know his voice — and on Tuesday, March 4, he let it be heard. The man, known in court documents by his initials since a publication ban protects his identity, has sat in the St. John’s courtroom...
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Wearing Nan’s old quilts
A mother and daughter duo on the east coast of Newfoundland have found their niche in the fashion industry by upcycling old quilts into things like jackets, coats and mittens. Tammy Mamo of St. Jones Within, and her daughter Bryar Mccollum of...
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WHY ARE MORE THAN 6,000 PEOPLE WAITING FOR AN MRI IN EASTERN NL?
In NL Health Services (NLHS) eastern zone, there are 6,291 people currently waiting for an MRI. Added to that, across the central zone, there are 1,112 people waiting, and in western, there are 1,113, according to numbers provided by the senior...
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‘We just can't access the services that she needs’
Jeremy Brenton feels like he is failing as a parent. He’s doing everything he can, but lengthy wait for developmental services for his four-year-old daughter, Jade, are frustrating. In 2022, Brenton and his wife, Gillian, noticed Jade wasn’t hitting...
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Woman frustrated cancer treatments unavailable on west coast
Yvonne Blanchard spent eight weeks in St. John’s undergoing treatment for cancer. It was a lonely and stressful time for the Trout River woman and her husband, Robert Bemister, and it was something that could have been avoided if the treatment she...
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LONG HAUL IN THE HALL
For five days and nights, Charlene Penney’s husband, Paul, slept on a stretcher in the Health Sciences Centre hallway due to a lack of beds. Paul went to the hospital Wednesday, Jan. 22 after routine blood work showed he had high creatine kinase (CK)...
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GRADE 6 STUDENT’S FINGERTIPS SEVERED IN CLASSROOM INCIDENT
Kamara White loves basketball and is one of the best players on the Grade 6 team she captains at Sprucewood Academy, but she’s worried she won’t ever be able to dribble or shoot a ball like she could before. The 11-year-old from Grand Falls-windsor...
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’The human cost of these closures is real’
Shelley Marsh Gosselin said it’s still hard to believe it’s been nearly two years since her father, Charlie, died. The former Bonavista woman’s father passed away in the back of an ambulance on his way to Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital in...
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‘J.D. is still fighting’
When Megan Trainor thinks of her nephew J.D. Trainor, she often thinks of hugs. Those hugs always came at the times when she needed them the most. “I love so much about this kid, but I think the thing I love most is his hugs,” Megan wrote in an email...
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Man claims he was judged at hospital for his tattoos, legal cannabis use
Ryan Fifield said he would rather die in his bed the next time he has a seizure, than have to go back to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s. The last time Fifield, 27, visited the St. John’s hospital was on Dec. 19, 2024 because of what he...
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Roman Catholic archdiocese of St. John's loses legal fight
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of St. John’s has lost its legal fight to have its insurance company cover some of the cost of its settlement with clergy abuse survivors. After a trial in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in St. John’s that began...
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NEW QMJHL HOCKEY TEAM FOR ST. JOHN'S
Not that long ago, the relationship between the City of St. John’s, St. John’s Sports and Entertainment (SJSEL) and the proprietors of Newfoundland and Labrador’s sports teams playing at the Mary Brown’s Centre had become so strained and tenuous, it...
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‘The devil is in the details’
Premier Andrew Furey said the memorandum of understanding (MOU) he signed with Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024 will be debated in a special sitting of the House of Assembly in early January. The non-binding MOU sets the...
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'The city within a park is no longer safe'
When Bailey Rempel got up to speak at a Mount Pearl public meeting to discuss enhancing safety in the community, it wasn’t to pose a solution. The Mount Pearl resident, whose husband was attacked by a group of young people Nov. 22, used it as an...
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Water contamination in Torbay?
Some residents in Torbay who have been battling water woes for years have finally had enough. On Nov. 25, 2024 Alex Templeton of Mcinnes Cooper filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the Government of Canada on behalf of a group of impacted...
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‘I will never forget what happened to me’
Warning: This article contains details of sexual violence that some readers may find disturbing. Sitting in a St. John’s courtroom Friday, Nov. 22, sexual predator Bruce Escott was silent as those he violated had their say. Through written...
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‘Everyone thought I was dead’
There was a time when Miranda Spencer didn’t think she’d live to see 30. The Port aux Basques woman was heavy into drugs and had hit rock bottom more than once. About 20 months ago, she finally decided she was tired of living the life she was....
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‘It’s sad, there’s no other word for it’
Carmanville resident Carly White has been on a waitlist for mental health counselling services since 2018. The 34-year-old woman said she's always struggled with seasonal depression, but after suffering a stroke in 2017, her struggles intensified into...
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‘I have gained so much from this journey’
Cancer takes a lot of things away from people. Penney Simms has experienced losses over the last seven months as she’s battled brain cancer, but in a video she shared on Facebook, the Corner Brook woman says cancer has taken other things from her,...
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Lost hunters endure cold, wet night in the woods
Chris Wheaton was sure he’d get through the night. His biggest concern, once he realized they were lost in the woods, was for his young son. The man from Frederickton, a small town north of Gander, was on a moose hunting trip in the Sheffield Lake...
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The power of love
Alexandre Béland and Carl Mastrovito aren’t claiming Céline Dion helped them become parents. All they’re saying is that she was involved, both times. Well, in voice, anyway. Dion was playing on the radio in the Toronto medical clinic during the...
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‘I’m in the hallway screaming, crying, I’m going to die’
Every time 21-year-old Joy Spence looks in the mirror and sees her scars, she's reminded of the traumatic experience she faced in trying to get a diagnosis at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's. "It's really hard to think about," said...
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Miracle woman set on making a full recovery
From Kermit the Frog to her beloved lime Popsicles, green has always been Glendene Barrow’s favorite colour. But the best green the woman from Gambo ever saw was the miraculous green light life has given her to proceed full-steam ahead. It wasn’t too...
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‘It’s as real to me today as the day it happened'
As Bernice Barker sat with her husband while he lay dying at the Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre nearly four months ago, her thoughts weren’t of the life they shared. Instead, she was remembering two years ago, when his privacy and dignity were...
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