Category Archives: Local News

Stella's Circle is holding their annual pancake breakfast for homelessness fundraiser this morning. As today is Pancake Day, the organization is putting off the initiative, with all money raised going...

NL Health Services CEO David Diamond is retiring. Diamond was appointed CEO of Eastern Health in 2014 and remained at the top job when all health authorities were amalgamated. In a statement, Premier ...

Drugs and components of firearms have been found inside a vehicle in Carbonear. Shortly before midnight February 6, a 40-year-old man from Heart's Desire was pulled over on Valley Road and ticketed fo...

A man who had a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest has been taken into custody by Bay St. George RCMP. Forty-eight-year-old Matthew Francis O'Quinn was wanted for violating the conditions of a lon...

Health Canada is recalling a number of salad kits due to possible listeria contamination. Recalls have been issued on Dole avocado ranch and southwest salad kits with best before dates up to February ...

The federal Auditor General has released a damning report on its audit of the implementation and management of the ArriveCan app used to monitor travel at the height of the COVID pandemic. Auditor Gen...

Some in Newfoundland and Labrador are perturbed by a recent commercial featuring a popular folk song from this province, but the company behind it says that was not the intention. The commercial for h...

There's a new nicotine product on store shelves that's causing some concern-that's because you don't have to be of legal age to purchase it. British Columbia is the first province to start cracking do...

Former Irish Prime Minister and an honorary graduate of Memorial University, John Bruton passed away earlier this month. Bruton signed an MOU on economic development with Newfoundland and Labrador in ...

A GoFundMe for a local performer who's make a name for himself in the art of recitation is exceeding expectations. Dave Penny, the artist behind Johnny Chrome and Island Baker, fell seriously ill with...