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This year, we witnessed a saga over bright lights, uncovered mysterious tunnels and marvelled at one particularly phallic chunk of ice. Here are the weirdest news stories to come out of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2023.

The new year started off with a bright spot-literally. Complaints and petitions surrounding what residents of ...

Steve Topping says he had no choice but to drop his challenge against his neighbour, Colin Way.

After co-founding and working with the experimental collective the Mummers Troupe, Mr. Brookes went on to distinguish himself as a maker of audio documentaries, winning a prestigious Peabody Award and a Prix Italia

There will be no punishment for a 32-year-old man accused of trying to take down a floodlight that stirred controversy in St. John's earlier this year.

After months of public pressure it seems, at least for now, that the controversial, extremely bright lights erected in the Outer Battery neighbourhood of St. John's have been flicked off. 

Residents of a historic fishing neighbourhood in St. Johns are cautiously relieved after a pair of floodlights that had been shining into homes since last May suddenly shut off.

Residents of St. John's Outer Battery area are feuding with a neighbour over bright flood lights that are allegedly always on. Police have already charged the lights' owner with mischief, but he has refused to take them down — or turn them off.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Residents of a historic Newfoundland fishing village say the City of St. John’s has abandoned them in their fight against a neighbour's powerful floodlights, which they say shine all night into the bedrooms of local homes.