Globe-trotting activist and sexual abuse survivor Gemma Hickey discusses their trip to the Vatican City for a pivotal clergy abuse summit
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Gemma Hickey is a globe-trotting activist. They cover some serious distance – 938km by foot walking across the island in 2015 to raise awareness for clergy abuse, over
SGO Designer Glass’ owner/operator Dave Pye and designer Jillian Gardiner take a modern approach to traditional stained glass works, using progressive techniques to bring colour and creativity to homes, businesses and places of worship in Newfoundland.
“I’ve always been a creative sort,” Pye began. “Unlike Jillian, I didn’t go to
The Crypt Tea Room in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist reopens this summer, heading into its 23rd year. A visit to the Tea Room has become an annual tradition for locals and is often a must-see for many visiting tourists
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The Crypt Tea Room came from Derrice
From acclaimed stage production to groundbreaking anthology, transVersing is one of the first trans-authored traditionally published books in Newfoundland history.
Described as “Shakespeare meets slam poetry and the fiddle meets soapbox rant” by its publishing company Breakwater Books, transVersing is possibly the first trans-authored, traditionally published book to come
Author Megan Gail Coles releases Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
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Local author Megan Gail Coles launched her most recent work, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club at Eastern Edge on February 7.
Coles sat down with The Herald just one day before
Local non-profit community service centre The Gathering Place is adding another service to their growing list of available resources and amenities
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The Gathering Place’s dental clinic will be taking its first patients in early December, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in early November, to mark the completion of this new
Andrew Miller will hopefully represent NL on WorldSkills Team Canada at next year’s WorldSkills International Competition
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Local College of the North Atlantic student Andrew Miller may be heading off to Russia next year to compete on the WorldSkills Team Canada.
Miller, a 21-year-old student currently studying Video Game Art
The sixth annual Spirit Song Festival will be held in the capital city on November 17, 2018.
“We started doing Spirit Song to provide a venue for people to learn and experience Indigenous culture in a way that most people feel comfortable with, which is the arts,” Chris Sheppard said.
The life of WWII soldier and POW Joseph Kearney is honoured in a new and painstakingly researched work.
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For authors Frank Galgay and Donna Adams, their latest project has been a long time coming.
A culmination of years of research, Joseph Kearney and the Hunt for Rommel is now available
Retired RCMP Superintendent William C. Malone recalls his year in Afghanistan in his 2018 tell-all book
In his 2018 book Cops in Kabul: A Newfoundland Peacekeeper in Afghanistan, retired RCMP Superintendent William C. Malone gives a thrilling personal account of his time in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was stationed