Category Archives: Local News

Proposed changes to the province's Adult Protection Act received second reading in the House of Assembly yesterday. In the first five years since the first Adult Protection Act was proclaimed, 1671 ad...

The Burin Peninsula is returning to Alert Level 2 following a recent outbreak linked to the school system. Public Health officials say while the initial source of the 83 total cases linked to the outb...

The RNC is searching for 24-year-old Peter Campbell in connection with a number of charges. He is wanted on charges of theft over $5000, among others, as a result of an investigation into a report of ...

Newfoundland and Labrador's unemployment rate is a sliver away from 14 per cent after a big jump last month. It stood at 13.1 per cent in September but was 13.9 in October. Statistics Canada says nati...

Darkness will descend on us by the supper hour next week as we prepare to fall back into Newfoundland Standard Time for the next four months or so. The time change affects everyone differently but, ge...

RCMP are commending the actions of a retail employee in Bay Roberts who prevented an elderly woman from falling victim to scammers. Police received a call from a local business on Wednesday morning in...

"Everybody's getting paid." That's the message Registered Nurses Union President Yvette Coffey has received from the regional health authorities hit by a cyber attack that has paralysed their IT syste...

Fire has destroyed a vacant building on Bell Island. The blaze broke out last night in fairly stiff winds. The old fish plant ceased operations about 15 years ago. Most on the island considered it to ...

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 1620 has made a donation of $30,000 to help support an Afghan family of four. A plane carrying 116 refugees from Afghanistan arrived in St. Jo...

The father of Victoria Head refuses to accept the sentence for his daughter's killer, or the apology. Forty-year-old Steven Bragg received the mandatory life in prison on Thursday, with no chance of p...