Category Archives: Local News

The Canadian Hurricane Centre says Ernesto is expected to track east of Newfoundland by the time the storm approaches the Atlantic region on Monday. The forecasting service says southeastern Newfoundl...

The offshore regulator is reporting a "near miss" that could've led to loss of life. The incident occurred more than a week ago, on August 7, involving a crew change between two vessels, but the C-NLO...

Voter turnout for yesterday's advance poll in the Waterford Valley byelection was brisk, by all accounts. Staff on site at Beaconsfield Junior High said anecdotally that there was a steady stream of p...

Dozens of kites peppered the sky above Wishingwell Park in St. John's yesterday for a celebration of Afghan kites. Kite-flying is a much-loved and long-standing Afghan cultural tradition, but has come...

Today is the deadline for public comment on a proposed biomedical waste incineration facility in Lewisporte. Paul Dalley Holdings is proposing to collect, transport and store biomedical waste at a fac...

The highly anticipated series of Shania Twain concerts at the Churchill Park Music Festival get underway Friday. The country music megastar quickly sold out three back-to-back shows, with some 45,000 ...

The Chair of Memorial University's Board of Regents, Glenn Barnes, has resigned from the position effective today. The resignation comes following a Code of Conduct review related to recent email comm...

RCMP today outlined the results of Operation Barcode, a massive investigation into organized crime in the Clarenville area. Five search warrants were executed last Friday, August 9th, at properties in...

The province's health authority is taking steps to standardize the use of agency nurses in the province, but the approach is not sitting well with the province's largest public sector union. The RNU h...

More child pornography charges have been laid against a disbarred St. John's lawyer. Fifty-four-year-old Michael Drover was struck from the Roll of Barristers and stripped of all practicing privileges...