Category Archives: Local News

First Voice has released its 10-year community action plan, a document that includes 42 calls for change aimed at advancing truth and reconciliation at the local level. The plan, entitled Our Shared V...

A 39-year-old Bonavista woman is facing a drug trafficking charge following the search of a home in the town last night. RCMP entered the home on Red Point Road and seized a quantity of cocaine, crack...

The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District has confirmed that a teacher facing sex charges in New Brunswick also worked for years in St. John's-area schools. Thirty-seven-year-old Stephen B...

A man is in critical condition as the result of a vehicle-pedestrian collision in Tors Cove last evening. RCMP say a man walking on the road was struck by two vehicles. The section road where the coll...

A Labrador man was sentenced to five and a half years in the shooting death of an acquaintance in Labrador West. Vincent Ward was charged with second degree murder but found guilty of manslaughter in ...

The provincial government has formally launched the review of nursing homes as called for by the Seniors' Advocate. Health Minister Tom Osborne has said on several occasions that government agrees wit...

A man is dead after being hit by a school bus on Old Broad Cove Road in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's. The accident occurred on the stretch between Maggie's Place and Prince George Drive at about 2 p.m. ...

Anyone who bought a lotto ticket in St. John's for last night's 6/49 draw should check their numbers. The jackpot did not go but somebody who matched all six numbers on the TAG portion comes away with...

The provincial government has begun a statutory review of the Personal Health Information Act. Toronto-based INQ Consulting and INQ Law have been appointed to assist government in completing the statu...

The death toll has now reached 19,000 from those massive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on the weekend. Efforts continue to try to locate people trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildin...