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Man Fails Roadside Breath Test at Checkpoint in Nain
A 24-year-old man has been charged with refusal after failing a roadside breath test taken during a recent National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day operation in Nain. RCMP, who were intercepting all ...
Dec 10, 2025 (RCMP)
Minister to Deliver Fall Fiscal Update Next Tuesday
Finance Minister Craig Pardy will deliver his fall economic and fiscal update next week. In August, previous minister Siobhan Coady indicated that the deficit had nearly doubled to $626 million from p...
Dec 10, 2025
Psychiatric Assessment Ordered for Man Charged in Attacks on Anspach Street
A psychiatric assessment has been ordered for a man accused of trying to kill two people and seriously injuring another Monday night. Thirty-two-year-old Mitchell Rose was arrested shortly after the s...
Dec 10, 2025
U.S. Products Back on NLC Shelves Today
Starting today, American booze will be back on NLC shelves with the net profit to be donated to the Community Food Sharing Association. Approximately $3.2 million worth of product was hauled from NLC ...
Dec 10, 2025 (VOCM News)
Wanted Man Arrested Following East End Assault
A wanted man has been picked up by the RNC after a call about an unwelcome person at a home in east end St. John's. Following an investigation, officers arrested the 22-year-old for assault and two ou...
Dec 10, 2025
Austin Deir Apologizes to Families of Two Young Women Killed in Crash on TCH
Austin Deir addressed the court Tuesday afternoon, apologizing to the grieving friends and families of Haley Keating and Erin Pretty for causing their deaths. Deir has endured a daily gauntlet of ange...
Dec 10, 2025 Austin Deir outside the courthouse in Clarenville. (Submitted)
Liberals Seeking Answers from Government One Year After MOU Reached with Quebec
It was one year ago this week that then-premier Andrew Furey announced the MOU with Quebec. However, with a new government now in power, the official opposition says there are many questions that the ...
Dec 10, 2025 Furey famously rips apart a copy of the original Churchill Falls agreement with Quebec. (VOCM News)
Bannerman Park Loop Now Open
Cold temperatures over the last week or so mean an early start to the season for The Loop in Bannerman Park. While the facility traditionally opens in December, this year's opening is ahead of last ye...
Dec 10, 2025 (File photo.)
Woman Arrested After Assault at West End Residence
A 19-year-old woman will appear in court after an incident at a home in the west end. Metro police were called about unknown trouble around 9:40 yesterday morning. Officers determined that the woman h...
Dec 10, 2025
Local Blogger Questions Spending at Memorial University's Signal Hill Campus
A Memorial University antagonist and blogger says he has uncovered information which shows that the Signal Hill campus is spending a lot more than it is taking in. Matt Barter, whose movements on camp...
Dec 09, 2025
