Category Archives: Local News

The shadow minister for forestry is calling on government to be fair and transparent when it comes to timber allotment in central Newfoundland. Pleaman Forsey, the MHA for Exploits, says the little gu...

The Executive Director of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is highlighting the closure of churches across the province as one of the more pressing challenges facing built heritage ...

A number of community spaces on the west coast and Northern Peninsula will be getting a revitalization thanks to federal funding from the Canadian Community Revitalization Fund. The Minister of Rural ...

The province is watching very closely as it awaits the federal Environment Minister's decision on the Bay du Nord project. Equinor's massive project is going through the environmental assessment proce...

Despite PCR and waste water testing that show an increase in COVID activity, hospitalization rates remain steady and manageable, meaning the provincial government is moving forward with a further easi...

Bay St. George RCMP say Steel Mountain Road has reopened, allowing traffic to be re-routed around a storm-damaged segment of the Trans-Canada Highway on the southwest coast. Culvert replacement has be...

The local community is rallying behind a family whose home was damaged as a result of the heavy rains last weekend. According to information on a GoFundMe organized by Madge Warren, her brother Larry'...

Attendance was a concern as students headed back to the classroom late last month, but according to the province's education minister, it has been holding steady. Tom Osborne says attendance rates hav...

Grant Thornton Ltd has been appointed to act as interim receiver as restructuring efforts continue to save the fluorspar mining operation in St. Lawrence. Details on the interim receivership filing by...

The World Health Organization is watching COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron BA.2 Subvariant with a close eye, but one Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at MUN says the subvariant is not as new a...