Category Archives: Local News

The province must pay out $10 million to compensate a company impacted by the construction of the Outer Ring Road. The case dates back to the mid-1990s when the province expropriated land to get the h...

The province's Chief Medical Officer of Health says even if she had the power to, she would not be reintroducing mask mandates at this time. Jurisdictions across the country have been reintroducing ma...

Western Health says it is working diligently to fill health care position vacancies including RNs. Registered nurses rallied in Corner Brook yesterday to call attention to mandated overtime. The RNU s...

The provincial government has put together a more detailed outline of what's available to people on the southwest coast regarding housing compensation and replacement following Hurricane Fiona. The fi...

Firefighters in Conception Bay South were called out to a house fire early this morning, but the family and their pets inside were not injured. The blaze broke out at about 2 a.m. in a building on the...

A test of the public alert system is coming later this morning. Provincial and territorial emergency management organizations will be issuing public text messages through Alert Ready throughout the co...

Seven people have been displaced by a house fire in the capital city. Around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, a fire broke out in a bungalow on Gosling Street in a basement apartment. The basement received most of ...

Marine Atlantic is announcing that it has awarded a contract for the construction of a new administration building in Port aux Basques. Olympic Construction and its teams will begin site work starting...

The NDP MHA for Torngat Mountains says a road link to northern Labrador is "badly needed," but she is trying not to get her hopes up. The federal and provincial governments are jointly funding a feasi...

Provincial Environment Minister Bernard Davis was part of a Canadian delegation in attendance at the COP27 Conference in Egypt last week. Davis says it was important to see what other parts of the wor...