Category Archives: Local News

The emergency room in St. Lawrence will be closed all of this week due to a staff shortage. The ER will be closed from 8:00 a.m. tomorrow to 8:00 a.m. the following Monday, August 7. Anyone experienci...

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will be in the province tomorrow. First, at 11:00 a.m. Singh and Mary Shortall, former president of the Federation of Labour, will have a meeting with that organizatio...

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has charged a 39-year-old CBS man who they say was impaired, and travelling at well over double the speed limit before several crashes on Brookfield Road in St. Joh...

The University Centre on MUN's St. John's campus was evacuated and closed for a couple of hours this afternoon. That was due to flooding caused by a sprinkler that was somehow triggered in a cooler. M...

Fire has destroyed a key business structure in the town of Baie Verte. The call came in around 2 a.m. Saturday morning, and despite best efforts firefighters were unable to save the building. It house...

The provincial government is installing new signs along the highways and access roads in Labrador that will include dual place names in Innu-aimun and English. The initiative is part of ongoing reconc...

A new workshop for women in the trades is coming to Newfoundland and Labrador. The Office to Advance Women Apprentices NL is launching their new "Mentoring Women in Trades Through Awareness and Unders...

Police are investigating a frightening incident in North West River on July 21. They say that shortly before 11:00 p.m. the received a report of a home invasion on Sunday Hill Road. Two masked men for...

Local advocate Gemma Hickey has been elected president of the provincial Liberals' newly formed 2SLGBTQIA+ commission. Hickey, who has run for the provincial Liberals in the past, says the goal of the...

The RCMP is sending a warning to potential tipsters after they say serious fake tips were received by Crime Stoppers. RCMP say Crime Stoppers is a useful resource for policing in the province, and it ...