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Radiothon Raises Almost $200 K For Burin Peninsula Health Care
The health care system on the Burin Peninsula got a major boost yesterday thanks to the 2024 Radiothon. A partnership between the Burin Peninsula Health Care Foundation and the VOCM Cares Foundation, ...
May 30, 2024
Man Dead After Moose-Vehicle Crash in Terra Nova National Park
A man in his 40s died after his vehicle hit a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway Wednesday night. The collision occurred shortly after 10 p.m. on the TCH through Terra Nova National Park. RCMP say the ...
May 30, 2024
No One Hurt After 600-Pound Piping Plummets To Hibernia Drill Floor
There's been another so-called near miss in the province's offshore oil industry. It happened last Sunday, May 26, on the Hibernia platform. Officials say a piece of equipment weighing about 600 pound...
May 30, 2024 Hibernia (Via ExxonMobil)
U.S. Firm Out To Prove Dives To Titanic Can Be Safe, 'Life-Changing'
Almost one year out from the catastrophic implosion of the Titan sub, an American billionaire is planning to take another deep dive to the Titanic wreck. The information was first reported this week b...
May 30, 2024
Province Launches Waitlist Hub For Regulated Child Care Spaces
The government has launched an online platform to register and check waitlists for regulated daycare spaces throughout the province. The Early Learning Gateway is designed to help improve access to ea...
May 30, 2024 Jennifer Quilty, co-owner of Apples to Zebras Daycare in Mount Pearl, and Education Minister Krista Lynn Howell. (VOCM News)
Gas Down Across Province, Little Change in Other Fuels by PUB
Some slight relief at the pumps this morning. The Public Utilities Board, in its weekly adjustment, reduced the price of gasoline by 3.3 cents per litre overnight. The cost of other fuels, such as die...
May 30, 2024
Big Rig Crashes Near Whitbourne in Early-Morning Fog and Darkness
RCMP and area firefighters rushed to the scene of a crash near Whitbourne on the Trans-Canada Highway early this morning. A tractor-trailer went off the highway in foggy conditions just before dawn, a...
May 30, 2024
Glovertown RCMP Searching For Teenager Missing From Indian Bay
RCMP are appealing to the public in their search for a missing young girl. Fifteen-year-old Cloee Burry was last seen in the community of Indian Bay, about 70 kilometres north of Gambo, on Tuesday nig...
May 29, 2024
MUN's New Environmentally Conscious Course Already Gaining Interest
At least 30 students have already signed up for Memorial University's new Climate Change and Sustainable Employment Relations course. Associate professor of international business and labour relations...
May 29, 2024
Man, 28, Dead Following ATV Crash in C.B.N. Town of Bristol's Hope
A young man is dead following an ATV crash in the Conception Bay North community of Bristol's Hope. Harbour Grace RCMP say it happened shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. They say the 28-year-old victim...
May 29, 2024
