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Increase in Lithium-Ion Battery Fires Reported Across Canada
Fire chiefs across Canada are raising the alarm about the increase in fires caused by lithium-ion batteries. The batteries are used to charge up everything from smart phones to watches, ear buds, toys...
Apr 16, 2024 Photo via Health Canada
Goulds Man Facing Numerous Charges After Deer Park Carjacking
A 34-year-old Goulds man was arrested by Holyrood RCMP following a reported carjacking in Deer Park on Sunday. RCMP were called on Sunday morning after a car was reportedly stolen at knife-point on Vi...
Apr 16, 2024
Examination of Government Contract with Private Agency for Travel Nurses Passed from Comptroller General to AG
The provincial government has revealed that an investigation by the Comptroller General into the contract signed with Canadian Health Labs for the provision of travel nurses has been handed over to th...
Apr 16, 2024
Mobile Crisis Response Team Now Active in Stephenville Area
A new mobile crisis response team is now available to serve the Stephenville/Port-au-Port and Bay St. George area. The team, made up of mental health and addictions clinicians as well as trained polic...
Apr 16, 2024
Advocate Highlights Gender Wage Gap on Equal Pay Day
Today is Equal Pay Day, a day to reflect on the gender wage gap. Women in Canada still earn 84 cents for every dollar earned by men. Advocates believe that the inequality extends beyond wages, contrib...
Apr 16, 2024
Man Dead Following Workplace Accident on Change Islands
One man is dead following a workplace accident at Change Islands yesterday. Carmanville RCMP were called around noon after a man who was operating a boat with an outboard motor near the ferry terminal...
Apr 16, 2024
Byrne Concerned Province Will Lose Workforce Development Funding
Provincial minister Gerry Byrne is extremely concerned that Newfoundland and Labrador will lose it's $16.8 million dollar allotment through the Workforce Development Funding program. Until now, the fe...
Apr 16, 2024 Minister Gerry Byrne
NL Cost of Living Soars in March
Canada's inflation rate increased slightly last month but the cost of living in Newfoundland and Labrador soared. Nationally, inflation is up by a tenth of a percentage point to 2.9 but in NL, it went...
Apr 16, 2024
MUN Labrador Campus to Offer First Undergraduate Program
The first undergraduate program at Memorial University's Labrador Campus will accept its first cohorts this September. The Bachelor of Arctic and Subarctic Interdisciplinary Studies Program was create...
Apr 16, 2024
CBS Taking Measures to Kick-Start Housing Development
The Town of Conception Bay South has taken a number of measures that it hopes will "kick-start" affordable housing development. The town hosted a Builders Forum on the weekend, inviting developers, re...
Apr 16, 2024 Conception Bay South Mayor Darrin Bent (VOCM News file photo)
