Category Archives: Local News

A man has been charged after a disturbance in the Rabbittown area yesterday afternoon. Police were called to the area of Hoyles Avenue just before 2 p.m. and spotted a man walking down the road who lo...

It's going to be slick underfoot with a prolonged period of freezing rain in store for parts of the island starting this evening. Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for the Avalon a...

A woman has been stripped of her driving privileges after metro police found her impaired behind the wheel yesterday. Officers on patrol on Torbay Road stopped the car around 8:30 last night. Police h...

There's another break at the pumps this morning. The regulated price of gas is down 7 cents - putting the price in the metro region around the $1.75 mark. Diesel plummets 18.7 cents on the island and ...

Memorial University is feeling the entrepreneurial spirit from the family of a man who breathed it. A $500,000 gift was announced Friday, compliments of the Woodward family, owners of the Woodward Gro...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but in some cases, it's leading to more people resorting to fraud to get by. That's according to Equifax, which says that it's finding more instances - not...

The mayor of a town in central Newfoundland recently rocked by two separate shootings says RCMP do well with what they have, but he would like to see more officers in the region. Within the span of a ...

The federal government is reporting success with attempts to recruit more personnel to the Canadian Armed Forces, with more than 7,300 people having signed up to join the military over the last year. ...

The provincial government is helping to support efforts by First Light to establish an Indigenous-led health clinic in the metro region. First Light, which represents Indigenous people living in the S...

Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson is in Spain this week to represent Canada, and Newfoundland and Labrador at the largest seafood expo in the world. The Global Seafood Expo is being held this week in...