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Parents Frustrated with Compressed School Days at Metro Junior High
St. Peter's Junior High, in consultation with the Department of Education, is implementing compressed school days. In a memo sent home to parents, St. Peter's Junior High informed the school community...
Apr 28, 2021 (Photo: nlesd.ca)
Price of Fuels Predicted to Go Down Tomorrow
It looks like the cost of gasoline will actually be going down tomorrow. The Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices predicts a drop of about two cents a litre. Heating oil, stove oil, and diesel will also...
Apr 28, 2021
People Expressing Disappointment with the Renaming of Red Indian Lake Continues to Grow
The renaming of Red Indian Lake in Central Newfoundland was among the items discussed in the Premier's regular meeting with Indigenous leaders this week. Indications are an update on those discussions...
Apr 28, 2021 (Photo Facebook: Millertown)
Melville Lake Ice Fracture Second-Earliest Date on Record; Warmer Temperatures Trending
The ice has fractured in Lake Melville. That's according to Environment Canada's Canadian Ice Services. In a tweet yesterday, Ice Services said that this year is the second-earliest date on record tha...
Apr 28, 2021
VOCM Earns Four Nominations for 2021 RTDNA Canada Awards
VOCM News has secured four nominations for this year's RTDNA Canada awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. VOCM has been named a finalist for its continuing coverage of Snowmageddon in January...
Apr 27, 2021
Comment Expected on Renaming Lake Following Premier's Weekly Call with Indigenous Leaders
Indigenous leaders in the province have wrapped up their regular weekly call with the Premier, but they're declining comment for now on their discussions around changing the name of Red Indian Lake. A...
Apr 27, 2021
PerSIStence Theatre Marks 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote in NL with New Projects
PerSIStence Theatre has launched several projects under the Votes for Women 100 initiative to commemorate the centennial anniversary of women first gaining the right to vote in Newfoundland and Labrad...
Apr 27, 2021
Damian Follett Recounts Impacts of COVID-19 Infection
The province is bracing for another possible outbreak of COVID-19 as case counts skyrocket in other parts of the country and around the world. The last outbreak of the B117 variant in the metro region...
Apr 27, 2021 (Damian Follett discusses his positive COVID-19 test in a video posted in February.)
Nova Scotia Implements Two Week Provincial Shut Down Due to Surge in Cases
Nova Scotia is announcing a two-week province-wide shut down due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. 96 new cases were reported in Nova Scotia today, and the virus is in every region of the province. 90 of...
Apr 27, 2021
NL Healthcare Team Arrives in Ontario to Aid Province with COVID Response
A team of nine health care professionals from this province has landed on the ground in Toronto to begin helping with COVID response in Ontario. Dr. Allison Furey told reporters on the tarmac at Toron...
Apr 27, 2021
