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Premier Does Not Expect Balanced Budget This Year
Premier Tony Wakeham says government will not deliver a balanced budget this year. Other Atlantic provinces and Alberta have already delivered billion-dollar or multi-billon dollar deficits. Wakeham s...
Mar 02, 2026 (VOCM News)
Counsel have 30 Days to Decide on Potential Appeals in Belbin Murder Case
It's too soon to say if there will be an appeal of Robert Belbin's conviction or sentence for second-degree murder. The 24-year-old St. John's man was sentenced last week to life in prison with no cha...
Mar 02, 2026 Robert Belbin in Supreme Court, September 22, 2025 (VOCM News)
New Government Outlines Priorities, Vows Greater Access to Healthcare and Safer Communities
Lieutenant Governor Joan Marie Aylward opened the 51st sitting of the House of Assembly by acknowledging the loss suffered and courage shown during last year's devastating wildfires. She also touched ...
Mar 02, 2026 Lieutenant Governor Joan Marie Aylward delivering the Speech from the Thorne (HoA)
Man Who Crashed Vehicle Already Suspended from Driving
A 64-year-old Springdale man, who wasn't supposed to be driving, has been charged after crashing his vehicle on Little Bay Road in Springdale last Thursday. RCMP found the man's vehicle off the road a...
Mar 02, 2026 Little Bay Road is the main road through Springdale (Google Maps)
Temporary Assistance Extended to End of September for CBN Residents Displaced by Wildfires
The provincial government is extending temporary assistance to residents of the Conception Bay North Shore displaced by last summer's fires, to the end of September. NL Housing is currently analyzing ...
Mar 02, 2026 Signs entering Adam's Cove burned by one of a number of wildfires, May 2025 (VOCM News)
Nain Man Charged with First Degree Murder, Arson in Connection with Fatal Fire
A 33-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder and arson in connection with a house fire in Nain back in November. Police were called to the home on Middle Path Road around 9:00 p.m. on N...
Mar 02, 2026 RCMP detachment in Nain. (File photo)
Liberal Opposition Launches Petition
The official Opposition has launched a petition calling on Premier Tony Wakeham to stop using MCP to pay a physician providing advice to the premier's office. The Liberals claim people are "deeply con...
Mar 02, 2026 Liberal Leader John Hogan and some of his opposition caucus (submitted)
MP Defends Decision to Vote Against Expansion of Recreational Food Fishery
The MP for Cape Spear says expanding the recreational food fishery is not as black and white as it sounds. Tom Osborne was responding to a Private Members Bill introduced in the House of Commons last ...
Mar 02, 2026
War in Middle East Expands, U.S. Defense Secretary Provides Update
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided an update this morning on Operation Epic Furey - the U.S. military campaign against Iran and its Islamist regime. More American troops are now heading to t...
Mar 02, 2026 U.S. Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth (C-SPAN)
Hussein Brothers Plead Not Guilty to Charges in Connection with Murder in City's East End
Not guilty pleas were entered and trial dates set this morning for two brothers charged in a targeted killing in St. John's east end last spring. Twenty-year-old Ibrahim Hussein and his older brother ...
Mar 02, 2026 Ibrahim Hussein (left) and Hussein Hussein (right) (VOCM News)
