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Several Options on the Table in Trying to Address Overcrowding at HMP: NAPE
Government and NAPE are exploring options to address overcrowding at HMP. The current prison population is about 70 inmates greater than full capacity, forcing staff to convert the Pen's gymnasium int...
Apr 08, 2026 NAPE President Jerry Earle (VOCM News File Photo)
AAHP Members Rally Outside Metro Hospitals
Members of the Allied Health Professionals will host lunchtime rallies today outside the Health Sciences and St. Clare's to raise awareness about what it calls an "escalating staffing crisis" facing h...
Apr 08, 2026
Ottawa Examining Ways to Provide Relief from Rising Fuel Prices
The Prime Minister says Ottawa is looking at ways to help "cushion the blow" of rising fuel prices. Mark Carney was asked about what the federal government intends to do as the price of oil continues ...
Apr 08, 2026 (VOCM News file photo)
RNC's Newest Recruits Sworn In Yesterday
Eighteen new officers have been sworn into the ranks of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. RNC Chief Pat Roche and Lieutenant Governor Joan Marie Aylward oversaw the event at the CLB Armoury in St. ...
Apr 08, 2026 A group of newly sworn in RNC officers (via RNC)
Tourism Minister Pens Letter to People Magazine Over 'Frozen Island' Headline
Tourism Minister Andrea Barbour has written People Magazine expressing her disappointment with the angle taken by the publication to a story about a recent international flight diversion to St. John's...
Apr 08, 2026 Minister Andrea Barbour (VOCM News)
Latest Fuel Prices for Wednesday, April 8, 2026
No big savings at the gas pumps in the PUB's latest adjustment. Gas is down by a cent this morning. Diesel drops 6 and a half cents on the island and roughly 7 cents in Labrador West. The price of fur...
Apr 08, 2026
Trump Agrees to Two-Week Ceasefire if Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz - Iran Confirms Ceasefire Deal
Just two hours before an 8:00 p.m. ET deadline set by Donald Trump, the U.S. President has agreed to a two-week cease fire with Iran - predicated on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump caused f...
Apr 07, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump via C-SPAN
Prime Minister Urges All Sides to Respect International Law as Trump Warns 'A Whole Civilization Will Die'
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada expects all parties in the current war between the United States, Israel and Iran to respect International laws and the rules of engagement. Carney was asked by ...
Apr 07, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking in Brampton, Ontario (C-PAC)
Weekend Collision Claims the Lives of Two Young People
A collision between a car and a pick-up near the Bull Arm turnoff Saturday evening claimed the lives of two young people. The victims, a 23-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman who were in the car, we...
Apr 07, 2026 (RCMP)
Grand Bank Man Charged with Numerous Weapons-Related Offences
A 28-year-old man from Grand Bank is facing a list of charges after confronting the occupant of a home in Fortune late last month. RCMP were called about an unwanted man inside a home on Forest Road i...
Apr 07, 2026
