Category Archives: Local News

Tickets for the Ultimate Dream Home Lottery close at midnight tonight. This year's dream home, located at 9 Stanford Place in St. John's and valued at over $721,000 dollars, is fully decorated and fur...

Another increase at the gas pumps this morning. The regulated price of gas is up by 2.4 cents a litre. Other fuels are also up, including deisel, furnace and stove oil...all of which are up by just ov...

Laura Winters is the new CEO of Stella's Circle. Winters has been working with community groups in the St. John's area for over a decade, most recently as Executive Director of the St. John's Status o...

Over 70 per cent of the province's COVID cases since February 28th of last year have been in fully vaccinated patients. That's according to a graph on the province's COVID-19 hub. Although the provinc...

A 69-year-old man has been ticketed, but is lucky to be alive after a shocking near-miss that was caught on camera. Deer Lake RCMP launched their investigation after the incident December 7th on the T...

The provincial government is developing a Provincial Health Professional Recruitment and Retention Office, and has established a new Assistant Deputy Minister of Health Professional Recruitment positi...

The move to Alert Level 4 amid a surge in COVID cases is another blow for team sport in the province. Sport NL Executive Director Troy Croft says while the provisions laid out under Alert Level 4 are ...

The country now has enough vaccine for all Canadians and the Prime Minister is encouraging people to get their third shot, while asking for patience during this difficult time. The Omicron variant has...

A walk-in clinic for the booster shot at Waterford Valley High today is running smoothly with people having no real issues. The clinic, which is for persons 70 and older, opened at 9:00 this morning a...

Those involved in ground search and rescue are hoping that funding can be increased to help sustain search and rescue work in the province and keep essential equipment running. Local ground search and...