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The Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of School Councils is applauding a ban on cellphone use in some Ontar...

In multiple districts across the country, rates of chronic absence — the percentage of students who miss at least 10 per cent of the school year, or two full days a month — are up significantly, according to exclusive data compiled by CBC.

It's business as usual at Harbour Grace Ocean Enterprises. The major employer recently filed for protection un...

Miracle dog Alvin, a 2-year old, white Bichon Frisé, lived on the streets for seven days without anyone seeing him. He escaped his leash at Green Valley Park at 9

The fate of nearly three dozen church-linked schools in Newfoundland and Labrador is the subject of some legal wrangling as lawyers debate how to compensate abuse victims, and it could cause some serious disruption in the education system.

An event in Habour Grace, N.L., to commemorate Amelia Earhart's solo flight across the Atlantic included more than 50 female pilots.

Posted: Mar 15, 2021 9:19 PM NT | Last Updated: March 16 Maggie Snow is the executive director of the Splash Centre, which moved into the former Harbour Grace Primary School in 2014. (CBC) The Splash Centre in Harbour Grace, which provides hundreds of young people with everything from meals to prom dresses, recreation and mental health support is in desperate need of help to keep its programming going. Since 2014, the centre — a part of the provinces community youth network — has called ...

Waterman added that students should head back to a classroom with 20 or 30 people in it only when Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and Health Minister John Haggie deem to safe to do so. "I think then thats the opportunity to push students slowly back into school, but rushing it is not the right option, because I feel that if something were to happen, students would feel the blame for it because weve been either pushing to go back to school or pushing to leave school, and ...

While there's still no timeline for when in-class education will resume, following an outbreak of a coronavirus variant that put the province in Alert Level 5 lockdown, the provincial teachers' association hopes to get more information that will lead to stricter safety protocols in schools.

Parents pointing to double standard over use of schools on voting day The N.L. Federation of School Councils complained Wednesday that its fielding calls from angry parents across the province, wondering why Elections NL is letting voters into schools, while theyre barred from entering school grounds for normal activities. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: February 5 The English school board is lending more than 50 of its schools to Elections NL on Feb...