Category Archives: Local News

The NL Teachers' Association is looking forward to working with the provincial government on promises made to address the issue of violence in schools. President Dale Lambe says that during the electi...

A search of a vehicle and a property in Heart's Delight has surrendered items linked to at least three break and enters in the area, including one at the North Atlantic gas station in Whitbourne a few...

Construction is scheduled to begin today to replace the slipway at Quidi Vidi. The work has been a long time coming. In 2024 the city deemed the 40-year-old structure unsafe to use, which sparked an o...

The federal fisheries minister says dialogue with all involved in the industry is important, and that's why she and DFO officials went across the country last summer reaching out to people on the grou...

A couple of people were arrested in two separate New Year's Day dust-ups in metro. The RNC locked up a 30-year-old man after he was in a house in the west end in which he was not welcome. That inciden...

An access card is now required for anyone wanting to drop off items at waste recovery facilities operated by the Eastern Regional Service Board. The access card system is only for ERSB facilities, and...

A number of new federal government rules and legislation come into effect starting today. They include changes to income tax brackets, with an indexation increase of 2 per cent. The lowest marginal pe...

Three people from this province are among the latest to be inducted into the Order of Canada. Governor General Mary Simon named 80 people to the Order yesterday. The three are: Mark Dobbin of Portugal...

The third suspect in the killing of a St. John's man a few days before Christmas remains too incapacitated to answer to the charges. Forty-seven-year-old Doug Yetman has been sedated in hospital, repo...

The Town of Carbonear held a special council meeting this week to adopt its 2026 budget, reducing the mil rate by 0.25 mils. The residential rate is 6.5 mils and the commercial 8.5. There is no increa...