The Labrador Voice

These days, Finance Minister Tom Osborne has a favourite saying: “A tree takes time to take root and takes time to bear fruit.” It’s something he said Monday, following the release of a report on economic diversification in the ...

The Liberal government is pressing ahead with their plan to replace the Waterford Hospital in St. John’s. The replacement involves two pieces: a new hospital building (as announced, an extension of the Health Sciences Centre in St. ...

There are many actions required to avoid a sharp jump in power rates in Newfoundland and Labrador as a result of the wildly over budget Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, and the Liberal government on Monday laid out its plans. The target is to ...

On the surface, amendments now on the table at the House of Assembly for the Correctional Services Act look like housekeeping. There are plenty of spot changes in the legal language. The name of the department is being corrected to the Department ...

At Nalcor Energy’s annual general meeting in St. John’s, president and CEO Stan Marshall said the project remains on the same schedule and budget, standing at an estimated $12.7 billion. The Muskrat Falls Inquiry has heard from ...

The House of Assembly’s Privileges and Elections Committee has proposed sweeping change to the way harassment complaints are handled by the provincial legislature. It will cover both the elected members of the House of Assembly (MHA) and staff ...

Nalcor Energy’s Muskrat Falls project team and representatives for contractor Andritz Hydro were going back and forth on paper, using increasingly heated language to describe work at the site in 2014, 2015 and into 2016. The dispute was ...

Documents being put into evidence at the Muskrat Falls Inquiry have, in a few cases, offered new views on previously reported events during the hydroelectric development. One such case is a “vigil walk” by members of the grassroots ...

The Muskrat Falls Inquiry is now hearing more evidence from the later stages of the hydro project’s construction, but the project is still ongoing and there are commercial negotiations and legal disputes still tied to contracts, leaving ...

After hearing from two former premiers about early Muskrat Falls project oversight by the provincial government, the public inquiry changed gears — on Wednesday, contractors were called in. Inquiry co-counsel Barry Learmonth started the day ...