Category Archives: Local News

The province's largest town is happy with the roads budget brought down by the PC government last week. The blueprint calls for new pavement on the main highway in Upper Gullies, and on a section of T...

Have you ever wondered what goes in to getting a professional baseball player ready to start the season? One St. John's optometrist recently had the chance to put the Toronto Blue Jays' peepers to the...

The NDP is calling on government to release an all-party committee report focused on affordability. The report, completed ahead of the provincial election, made several recommendations on addressing a...

Memorial University is contradicting remarks made by the Faculty Association regarding class size and the number of contractual faculty positions in the Department of Mathematics. MUNFA claims that se...

The MP for Labrador says funding coming to upgrade 5 Wing Goose Bay will put the base at the forefront of Canada's efforts in protecting Arctic sovereignty. Ottawa is pumping $35 billion into infrastr...

Some 450 young swimmers from across the province dove into the pool last week for the annual Swim for Hope, raising $183,000 in support of cancer care. The relay-style event brought together swimmers ...

An unnamed third party has come forward with cash to help cover some, but not all of the shortfall in compensation for over 300 victims of abuse at the hands of some members of the Roman Catholic Chur...

An English adventurer will be in St. John's this spring to make another attempt to cross the big ocean in a tiny boat. Andrew Bedwell encountered problems with his mini-boat before he even got going t...

Happy Valley-Goose Bay is the latest municipality to announce the introduction of a tourist accommodation tax. The Town of Gander is bringing in a new four per cent tax on overnight accommodations, an...

Some provincial and municipal services will be unavailable today due to the St. Patrick's Day holiday. Provincial government offices are closed and the House of Assembly will not be sitting today. Sch...