Category Archives: Local News

CUPE President Sherry Hillier is targeting Mount Pearl Deputy Mayor Nicole Kielly, and questioning why she has been silent through the course of the eight-week municipal workers' strike. Hillier says ...

We're into the dying days of August but you wouldn't know it by the weather, at least on the island. It has been rainy in Many parts of Labrador with the wind off the ocean, but it's a different story...

A chance visit to a swimming hole in metro Sunday afternoon led to an act of bravery that probably saved two lives. Derrick Connors and his wife Debbie were out for a drive on a warm afternoon when th...

A local investment analyst is expressing great optimism over the province's hydrogen potential. A number of major projects are in the works on the province's southwest coast to help fill Germany's hyd...

A parent is urging both sides in the ongoing strike in Mount Pearl to resolve their differences so that recreational and sport programming in the city can resume. Desiree Newhook lives in St. John's, ...

As summer comes to a close many people are noticing an increase in wasps, something which a local entomologist says is par for the course for this time of year. Dr. Barry Hicks explains that most of t...

The Human Rights Commission is beginning its hearings into a discrimination case against the English School District brought on by the parents of a deaf child. Todd and Kim Churchill have been fightin...

Holy Cross extended their season-long unbeaten streak Sunday to capture the Breen's Jubilee Trophy Championship for the seventh year in a row with a 1-0 win over Feildians All-Star Rebar. Jane Pope sc...

The province's Francophone School Board has a new director of education. Selena Mell, originally from Quebec, is a graduate of Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She earned a masters of educat...

A grassroots community group is taking the provincial government to court over its plans to clear-cut a large portion of Crown land on the East Coast. The Citizens Against Clearcutting says the provin...