Category Archives: Local News

Another radiothon in support of health care in central Newfoundland came just shy of the $100,000 mark. VOCM's Mother's Day Radiothon in Gander raised over $97,267 towards the purchase of new medical ...

Police are searching for a young girl missing from the St. John's area. Twelve-year-old Emmalee McCrindle was last seen along Kenmount Road around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. She is described as about five fee...

Gymnastics NL and Campia Gymnastics are hosting the Eastern Canadian Gymnastics Championships this weekend at the PowerPlex in St. John's. Roughly 800 excited athletes, coaches and judges from Ontario...

The Mounties in Labrador are crediting a K9 and his handling officer for nabbing a suspected shoe thief. Police responded to the theft from a store in Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Wednesday. Upon arrival...

Naloxone kits will now be distributed to all junior and senior high schools in Newfoundland and Labrador. The kits, which can be life-saving in the event of an overdose, will be available in first aid...

Police say a "very irate" man attacked officers with a block of cheese during an incident in St. John's on Thursday night. The RNC was responding to a disturbance at a house in the center of the city ...

The Newfoundland Rogues are in must-win territory tonight at the Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's. The Rogues are down 2-0 in their best-of-five, first-round series with the Kitchener-Waterloo Titans...

Eight Bell Island ferry workers have been released from hospital following a fire aboard the Flanders on Thursday. It happened in the engine room around noon as the vessel was pulling away from the do...

Six commercial vehicles were taken off the road this week as the result of a highway enforcement checkpoint on the ramp in Stephenville. RCMP say eight commercial vehicles were inspected, and forty-fi...

Well-known writer, commentator and columnist Rex Murphy has passed away. He was 77. Murphy, who grew up in Placentia, was a Rhodes Scholar and former president of the Memorial University student counc...