Category Archives: Local News

Public Health is scaling back the frequency of updates on respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 and influenza. The province's online dashboard will be updated once every two weeks. Eventually those u...

One person is in custody after a car struck a parked vehicle and home on Pennywell Road in St. John's this morning. RNC say the call came in around 10:10 this morning. Police say the driver fled from ...

The popular Downtown Pedestrian Mall officially opens next week. Starting next Thursday, June 20, Water Street from Adelaide to Prescott will be closed to vehicle traffic daily from noon to 10 p.m. Th...

Police have filed dozens of more sexual violence charges against Paradise teach and volleyball coach Markus Hicks. The RNC have repeatedly said they believe more people would come forward in the case ...

The sexual assault trial for a St. John's fire captain was delayed when the case was called in provincial court yesterday. Fifty-two-year-old Ron Pomeroy was charged in December with sexual assault an...

Auditor General Denise Hanrahan believes there are other mechanisms in place for the province's Oil and Gas Corporation to make its jobs more competitive than simply offering higher salaries. Hanrahan...

A St. John's man charged with impaired and dangerous driving causing death has been granted bail again. Thirty-eight-year-old Rodney Constantine was charged in March, three months after the fatal cras...

Firefighters continue to battle two out-of-control forest fires burning north of Labrador City. Provincial Duty Officer Laurie Holloway says the fire at Menihek Lake is estimated to be 500 hectares in...

A woman who turned up at the emergency room at the Health Sciences in St. John's last night may have been shot. Police were called to the hospital around 10 p.m. The woman's injuries were not life-thr...

There isn't much change in fuel prices this time around. Gasoline went up but only by fractions of a penny-0.2 cents. Diesel fuel on the island only increased by 0.6 cents, but in Labrador its fell by...