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28-Year-Old Man Facing Charges After Providing False Identity to Police
A man is in custody after an incident in Mount Pearl late yesterday afternoon and for trying to lead police astray. RNC officers went to a business in the city at about 4:00, arresting a 28-year-old f...
Dec 15, 2023
Gander Launching Five-Year Plan to Improve Health Care
The Town of Gander is launching a five-year plan to improve health care. The recruitment and retention strategy was developed in consultation with health care workers, the provincial government, and o...
Dec 15, 2023 Percy Farwell
AAHP Wants Government to Reverse Decision to Privatize Air Ambulance
The Association of Allied Health Professionals is joining calls for government to reverse its decision on the privatization of air ambulance services. Government's recent RFP for a single, integrated ...
Dec 15, 2023 Photo Credit Chad Hickey
Auditor General Agrees to Long-Term Care Facilities Audit
Auditor General Denise Hanrahan has agreed to conduct an updated audit into long-term care and personal care homes. The original audit was issued in 2014, but the Public Accounts Committee requested a...
Dec 15, 2023 Auditor General Denise Hanrahan
Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Calling on Province to Repair Deteriorating Road
The town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove is putting out a "cry for help" to the provincial government to repair deteriorating road infrastructure. Provincial snowplow operators are refusing to clea...
Dec 15, 2023 (Marine Drive in Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove. Photos via Twitter. April 2022)
Rogers, Lynk Global Complete First Satellite-to-Mobile Call With Everyday Phones
Another breakthrough in telecommunications has been achieved in Heart's Content. Rogers and Lynk Global have successfully completed the first-ever satellite-to-mobile phone call using ordinary cellpho...
Dec 14, 2023 (First Responder Mabel Tilley, Newfoundland and Labrador Search and Rescue Association and the Honourable Dr. Andrew Furey, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador complete the first successful satellite-to-mobile phone call with everyday smartphones)
Arrest Made Following Incident in St. Fintan's on Southwest Coast
A man has been arrested after an incident in St. Fintan's on the southwest coast this afternoon. Locals were ordered to stay inside their homes as police responded to an unfolding situation near Stati...
Dec 14, 2023
Details of Fatal Drunk-Driving Crash Read Aloud in Provincial Court
The chilling details of a fatal drunk-driving crash were read aloud in provincial court this afternoon. Joshua Burt was driving 129 km/h in the wrong direction on Pitts Memorial Drive when his F-150 p...
Dec 14, 2023
Northpine Foundation Puts Over $500,000 Towards Bonavista Wellness Centre
A former high school in Bonavista is going to be converted into a comprehensive wellness centre with the help of $550,000 from the Northpine Foundation. That organization and the Tip-A-Vista Wellness ...
Dec 14, 2023 (Conceptual Drawing)
Canadian, NL Manufacturing Industry See Decline in Sales
The numbers are out on manufacturing in Canada, and the industry has declined nationally by 2.8 per cent from October 2022 to October 2023. The decline in manufacturing was more dramatic in Newfoundla...
Dec 14, 2023
