Category Archives: Local News

After nearly six months, the town of Victoria has a new elected council. A special byelection was held in the town yesterday after the previous council was dismissed by the department of municipalitie...

Residents of Harbour Grace and local heritage groups are seeking answers after two structures intrinsically woven into the town's mercantile history were suddenly and quietly demolished earlier this w...

Marking the unofficial start of summer, it's one of the busiest weekends of the year. The Victoria Day weekend, also known as the 24th of May or May 2-4, is when many flock to parks and campgrounds to...

A 48-year-old man had no luck trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the RNC during a traffic stop this morning. Officers patrolling Campbell Avenue stopped the car around 1:10 a.m. The driver provi...

Another affordability threshold has been surpassed with some whole chickens in the metro region selling at more than $20 this week. That's a shocker even to Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie's Agri-Food...

The May 24th weekend marks the culmination of Road Safety Week. RNC Constable Steph Myers says officers pulled over dozens of vehicles within the first few hours of traffic enforcement activity in a s...

The provincial government is aware of Ottawa's plans to double Canada's electricity grid capacity by 2050. The Department of Energy says it is in routine contact with the federal government on "multip...

There were no injuries, but a man is now facing impaired driving charges after a single-vehicle crash on the Outer Ring Road early this morning. RNC was called to the scene just after 1:00. The 21-yea...

A bit of relief at the pumps ahead of the May 2-4 long weekend. Gas is down 4.7 cents. Diesel drops by 8.3 cents on the island and 9 cents in Lab West. Furnace oil is down by 7.2 cents. The price of s...

Hospital Road in Bonavista is closed to traffic as first responders attend to the scene of a collision. RCMP issued the notification at 9:33 p.m. indicating that the road is closed between Joy's Lane ...