The department of justice and public safety confirms that there are more than two dozen inmates at HMP who are currently being accommodated in the gym of the aging prison. The department says the number of inmates in Newfoundland and Labrador is rising, and there are currently 25 people being accommodated in the gym. T...

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...