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Preparations Underway at CBS Area for Growlers Homestand
The Newfoundland Growlers are looking to return home as preparations are underway at the CBS Arena for the Growlers upcoming homestand. The first six home games of the Growler's hockey season will be ...
Nov 01, 2021
Students in K-3 Now Required to Wear a Mask
The province's new restrictions for K-6 schools come into effect today. All students in kindergarten to Grade 3 will be required to wear a mask, while staff at regulated child care centres will also b...
Nov 01, 2021 (File photo.)
Staff Parking Garage Now Open at Health Sciences
The brand new parking garage for staff at the Health Sciences Centre campus is now open to vehicles. Some 1,000 vehicles can be accommodated in the new parking space constructed on the northwest corne...
Nov 01, 2021 (File photo.)
Health Minister, Eastern Health to Provide Update on Internet Outage Causing Service Disruptions
The Minister of Health and the President and CEO of Eastern Health will today provide an update on the internet outage that has disrupted services across multiple health authorities. Minister John Hag...
Nov 01, 2021 (Health MInister John Haggie, file photo.)
Springdale RCMP Looking for Missing Man
RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a missing Springdale man. Sixty-one-year-old Lloyd Bonnier was last driving a green 2020 Arctic Cat Prowler side-by-side ATV in the community on Octob...
Oct 31, 2021
Deadline for Completion of Safety Courses for Big Game License Draw Extended into New Year
The deadline has been extended for completion of the firearm and hunter safety courses for those hoping to enter the 2022-23 big game license draw. The deadline date has been pushed back from November...
Oct 31, 2021
No Evidence to Suggest Increased Minimum Wage Will Help Reduce Poverty: Fraser Institute
The Fraser Institute says while an increase in minimum wage could have a positive effect, they haven't found much in the way of evidence to show that it results in a reduction in poverty. Ben Eisen is...
Oct 31, 2021
Dale Jarvis Preparing to Spook the Airwaves with Halloween Haunted Hotline
Well known story teller and folklorist Dale Jarvis is looking for people willing to tell some spooky stories of their own as he opens the phone lines on VOCM this evening for the Halloween Haunted Hot...
Oct 31, 2021
Colin Fewer and Kate Bazeley Victorious in 2021 Tely 10 Race
The first Tely 10 in two years is in the books. Participants began in Paradise and ran through the crisp fall air and through blankets of freshly fallen leaves to get to the finish line at Bannerman P...
Oct 31, 2021 Colin Fewer (left) and Kate Bazeley (right) cross the finish line at the 2021 Tely 10.
Two Men Arrested Following Separate St. John's Assaults
Two men have been arrested following separate assaults in the Capital City. The first incident occurred just before 11 p.m. in the area of Airport Heights. After a woman was found injured inside her h...
Oct 31, 2021
