Category Archives: Local News

A staffer of the Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation has been acknowledged with a national award. Janessa Ward received the John Lauck Leadership Award during the Children's Miracle Network (CMN) f...

A 59-year-old man is dead following an ATV crash on the west coast yesterday. The accident occurred around 5:00 p.m. in McKays. According to the RCMP, the driver, who was the only person on the quad, ...

A test of the national Alert Ready system is coming tomorrow. An emergency test message will be broadcast through radio, television, smart phones and other compatible wireless devices at 10:55 tomorro...

A 21-year-old Pouch Cove man has been arrested and is facing numerous serious charges in connection with a terrifying incident that could have turned out far worse. A car with five people on board, le...

A 55-year-old man is dead as the result of a single-vehicle crash on the Burgeo Highway Monday afternoon. RCMP say the crash occurred around 4:15 near Top Pond. Police say the vehicle crossed into the...

A diabetes advocate and nutrition coach doesn't think policies like the addition of a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks have a dramatic impact on the health of a population. Today is World Diabetes Day. T...

Life after retirement is known as the golden years, but the province's Seniors' Advocate is asking "What Golden Years?" in a new report addressing serious cost-of-living challenges faced by seniors in...

An organization which focuses on the well-being of children and other young people likes much of what it sees in the provincial government's poverty reduction measures announced last week, but it hope...

The Consumer Advocate has assembled a team of experts to pore over Newfoundland Power's general rate hike application which would increase rates by 7 per cent over the next year-and-a-half, but on the...

Metro police had to deploy a spike belt to finally stop a vehicle in Conception Bay South in a pursuit which had begun earlier in the area of Petty Harbour Road late Monday night. The vehicle sped off...