Category Archives: Local News

Demolition of one of the capital city's worst eye sores officially began today. The old Grace Hospital nursing residence has been sitting derelict for decades, attracting urban explorers, vandals and ...

There's another blast of winter in the offing but it's not expected to rival the ferocity of this week's two-day storm. The Avalon Peninsula and others parts of eastern Newfoundland will be in for som...

Three crewmembers of a fishing vessel that ran aground on the south coast this week are safely back on dry land. The Cape Cordell, carrying a load of redfish, became grounded near Fortune during the h...

New phone numbers issued in Newfoundland and Labrador may come with a new area code. In addition to 709, the 879 area code will now be assigned to phone numbers within the province. Any numbers curren...

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who receive the federal government's carbon tax rebate might get a smaller amount on their next cheque. The next helping of the rebate will hit bank accounts on April ...

A drug nearly 20 times more potent than fentanyl has been detected for the first time in this province. RCMP Cpl. Jolene Garland says the synthetic opioid Nitazine was identified following an overdose...

This week's winter storm has forced the Newfoundland Rogues to cancel their three-game weekend series against the London Lightning. Travel issues initially caused a delayed start to the series, but in...

Changes are coming to the annual Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival. But they're not sitting well with some longtime festival-goers. People buying early-bird passes online quickly discovered an e...

RCMP are investigating a break and enter at the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Sometime between February 9 and 13, someone broke the lock on the gated yar...

The province's arts and recreation minister is in Berlin for meetings on film and television. Minister Steve Crocker and representatives from Picture NL and the Film and Media Production Centre at Col...