Emails obtained through an access-to-information request show Deloitte “approved” (top) a government statement being prepared ...

Attendees of the annual Take Back The Night march in St. John’s. Sept. 20, 2024. Tania Heath/Project Power Back. On a late summer morning inside Province House in Halifax, Nova Scotia Premier Tim ...

Despite the growing number of wildfires in Newfoundland and Labrador and across Canada, the provincial and federal governments still aren’t monitoring air quality in Labrador to the extent they are ...

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The Government of Canada’s new draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions means it’s more important than ever to see through the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda The Independent is ...

The PCs earned just enough seats to form a majority government in a stunning upset during the 2025 general election on Oct. 14, 2025. While earning 21 of 40 seats in the house of Assembly, the party ...

Compared to pre-moratorium times, today there are fewer fish, fishers, processors, vessels, and plants. But the value of our fishery remains high.

Inuit in Labrador have been bearing the brunt of climate change for years now, forcing those in Nunatsiavut to adapt to conditions that are changing their way of life and impacting their health. In ...

Reporters [L-R] Derek Montague, Heidi Atter, Rhea Rollmann, Yumna Iftikhar and Justin Brake were recognized for their work. Background photo: Atlantic Journalism Awards/Facebook.

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Days after The Independent broke a story about the apparent use of artificial intelligence in a government-commissioned healthcare report, the province added safeguards to its public procurement ...

Big changes are coming to Newfoundland and Labrador’s environmental assessment process for resource development projects, but one expert says a draft agreement between the provincial and federal ...