Category Archives: Local News

A hunter found himself in a serious predicament on the weekend, but as luck would have it, searchers managed to locate and extract him from a bog in the Colinet area. RCMP say the man, who was hunting...

It was Newfoundland vs Labrador on Family Feud last night. The defending champions the Woodman family of Dunville, Placentia Bay were toppled by the Martin family of Wabush, Labrador. The episode was ...

The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami has written an open letter to "alert Canadians to false claims to Inuit identity." The ITK says its letter is intended to draw attention to what it says are the efforts of ...

A serious collision on the Trans Canada Highway approximately 2 kms west of Clarenville has resulted in some significant traffic slowdowns. RCMP say traffic is moving, albeit slowly. Drivers are being...

Mother Nature is going to paint parts of Labrador white over the next few days with special weather statements in effect for the Upper Lake Melville area and the southeast. Meteorologist Erika Ranger ...

The province is looking for proposals for affordable rental housing in the metro region. Government has released an inventory of vacant land in the area that can be opened up for the development of pu...

Premier Andrew Furey and the Premier of British Columbia, David Eby, are holding a joint news conference in St. John's today. This comes following a meeting of Canada's Premiers in Nova Scotia over th...

A marine mammal researcher expects more sightings of North Atlantic right whales in Newfoundland waters as ocean temperatures continue to rise. A ten-year-old female, identified as "Freckles," never b...

The appeal process is now underway for a former high school teacher and coach convicted of sexual assault. Forty-year-old Noel Strapp was convicted last year and sentenced to four years in jail for of...

Skills Canada Newfoundland and Labrador is beginning a Youth Apprenticeship Summer Employment Program. This is National Skilled Trades and Technology week. The program, done in partnership with the pr...