Category Archives: Local News

Premier Andrew Furey says he would like to see the federal government make more use of 5 Wing Goose Bay in Labrador. During the recent meeting of Canada's Premiers in Halifax, Furey was asked about ca...

A 29-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after metro police found him passed out behind the wheel early this morning. Around 2:30 a.m., the RNC responded to a call of a possible impaired d...

The Conservation Corps has hired more than 100 young people for work on 26 Green Team projects across the province. The young people will work with those in the community on a variety of environmental...

A 43-year-old man was arrested after the RNC responded to a break and enter in the capital city overnight. Shortly after midnight police responded to an east end home. When they arrived the suspect, w...

Interest in government funding to help make agricultural land more resilient to weather is keener this year than last. Forty applications were submitted for money available through the program, with 3...

Weather and overall forest fire conditions have improved in Labrador West, allowing essential workers, for now, to return to the town. The partial lifting of the evacuation order was announced by Prem...

RCMP have laid impaired driving charges in connection with a highway crash that killed two young women six months ago. The victims, both 22 years old, died after the car they were driving was struck h...

The PCs have closed the nomination process for the district of Waterford Valley. Kevin Guest and Jesse Wilkins have put forward their names for the nomination. An in-person nomination vote will be hel...

The NDP is accusing the provincial government of failing to address what it calls the "deepening health care crisis." Leader Jim Dinn says there has been an "alarming" increase in the number of people...

Premier Andrew Furey says Newfoundland and Labrador is "more than happy" to do its share to take some of the asylum-seekers showing up in Ontario and Quebec "within our limits." This issue is a seriou...