The well-known former executive director of a local violence prevention organization has been charged with defrauding the group of more than $135,000. RNC says 50-year-old Valerie Barter of CBS has been charged with fraud over $5,000, forgery, uttering a forged document, using a forged document, false pretenses, mischi...

The life of a woman considered to be one of "the last nomadic Labrador Innu mothers" was honoured in the House of Assembly yesterday. Mary Adela Penashue passed away last week at the age of 98. Lake Melville MHA Keith Russell rose in the House of Assembly to pay tribute to the woman. Russell says Penashue was...

The Fraser Institute says Danny Williams and Joey Smallwood remain at the top of the list of NL's highest-spending premiers. The public policy think-tank compiled inflation-adjusted spending levels since 1965 and found that Williams spent $17,798 on programs per person in 2023 dollars in 2005. That's the highest spendi...

A man has been arrested, and a BB gun has been seized following an incident outside a home in Natuashish. The RCMP were called to a home on Katshinak Street just after 3:00 Tuesday afternoon. Nineteen-year-old Glenn Katshinak was arrested at the scene and a BB gun was seized. In Canada, a BB gun is considered an imitat...

The price of chocolate and sugar is dropping but consumers likely won't see the benefit of that until next Easter. Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University Sylvain Charlebois says high prices this year are a reflection of prolonged production issues in Ghana and the Ivory Coast - two of world's l...