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• No tax increases next year, but there will be a new $150 Waste Management levy for Corner Brook

  The total proposed budget for 2026 is $44.7 million, representing a 6.7% increase in expenditures.

• NL's deficit is now $948 million instead of the $626 million projected this past summer

  Finance Minister Craig Pardy provided the update at a news conference this afternoon, saying with revenues of $10.3B, expenditures of $11.3B and mid-year projected deficit to be $948M, there’s no sugar coating that this number is deeply troubling and these structural changes will take time to fix.

• More damage and debris around grounded cargo ship in Lark Harbour

  The clean up of oily debris around the shoreline of the MSC Baltic III has started but once again, Coast Guard officials and the salvage team can’t go ahead with work due to weather and sea conditions.

• Four people charged after string of break and enters on the Northern Peninsula

  RCMP say they searched a home in the Northern Peninsula community last  Tuesday (December 9th) and found a number of firearms and a quantity of ammo, this after learning that the owner was not licenced.

• Clean up at site of grounded cargo ship in Lark Harbour, oily debris found nearby and on beaches

  The Canadian Coast Guard is reporting significant additional damage to the hull, including a noticeable change in the condition of the steel plate buckling on the starboard and port sides of the vessel.