Mark Quinn

Memorial University is looking at a policy that will require its Indigenous students and faculty to submit proof of membership in a recognized Indigenous group before being able to access funding and jobs set aside for Indigenous applicants.

DFO scientists are predicting the capelin stock will be lower in 2025 than it was in 2024 when it was close to its post collapse high.

Research in Newfoundland led to a treatment that keeps Chad Pelley's heart from stopping, but the genetic variant he carries still poses a threat. The next step is finding a treatment that gets to the root of the problem caused by the genetic variant and erases the risk of heart disease caused by it.

A woman who was brutally raped by Sofyan Boalag when she was 15 says he deserves no compensation after he was violently attacked at a federal prison.

It took Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services 18 months to fix Nain's morgue even though health officials were emailed repeatedly — and with growing urgency — that the community had nowhere to respectfully keep its deceased loved ones.

When St. John's resident Magda Moyes learned the pain from her terminal cancer was only going to get worse, her interest in medical assistance in dying went from advocacy to a deeply personal decision.

Russian acrobats who defected to Canada in 1992 have returned to St. John's to celebrate a Newfoundland woman who helped them restart their lives. The former members of the world-famous Moscow Circus and their growing families continue to perform across North America.

The Registered Nurses' Union Newfoundland and Labrador is appalled that the provincial government has added a clause to private-agency nursing contracts that prevents nurses from staying and working in Newfoundland and Labrador's public health-care system. 

After more than two years of evading the Taliban and a dogged campaign led by retired Canadian military members urging the federal government to keep its promise, Afghan interpreter Mohammad Arif Yousafi is safe in Alberta.

Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister says a plan to create a registered psychiatric nurse pilot project was dropped after health officials found there was no way to regulate the specialized nurses in the province.

Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister says contracts employing agency nurses are approved and handled by the province's health authority, but the Official Opposition says documents obtained by the party say otherwise.

The wait list for heart surgery in Newfoundland and Labrador has remained largely unchanged for months — hovering around 190 — but that single number doesn’t tell the whole story.

A petition calling for a much longer recreational food fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador has collected more than 2,200 signatures. The tour operator who started it has been pushing for changes to the food fishery for about a decade.

Close to 200 Newfoundland and Labrador patients are waiting for heart surgery, despite recruitment of surgeons and help from surgeons at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

Premier Andrew Furey says the construction of the new adult mental health and addictions is on time and on target, and should be open by the spring of 2025.

Newfoundland and Labrador is hiring a handful of physician assistants for a pilot project that aims to lead to widespread use of the health-care profession already working in many other provinces.

The medical association wants assurances doctors won’t be lured away from community practices to work with a new virtual service. Health Minister Tom Osborne says no doctors will be “poached” from community-based practices.

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Minister Tom Osborne says the province is set to announce a new virtual-care plan for residents in the very near future, which would give anyone in the province access to a physician.

Almost a year after a local union sounded the alarm about a shortage of radiation therapists in Newfoundland and Labrador, cancer patients are still being sent to Ontario for care. Some patients aren’t receiving prescribed treatments within a 28-day national standard.

This summer, curiosity about family connections and history brought three women from different parts of the U.S. to eastern Newfoundland where they met each other and many newfound relatives for the first time.