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Labrador-Grenfell Health Expands COVID-19 Testing to Prevent Spread from Metro
Labrador-Grenfell Health has expanded its COVID-19 testing protocols to include asymptomatic people who have traveled back into the jurisdiction from the St. John's-metro area in the last two weeks. M...
Feb 16, 2021 (File photo)
Eastern Health Scales Back Services to Reduce Traffic in its Facilities
Eastern Health has reduced the number of services it provides at its facilities in accordance with Alert Level 5 Protocols, but just because services aren't happening in person doesn't mean they aren'...
Feb 16, 2021 (File photo.)
St. John's Using Lessons From 2020 to Keep Operations Rolling Under Alert Level 5
The City of St. John's provided an update this morning on the status of services under Alert Level 5. Mayor Danny Breen says the city, like many other organizations, learned a lot from last year's loc...
Feb 16, 2021 (File photo.)
Bonavista Home Doused with Tomato Sauce for Second Time
Valentine's Day and red go hand-in-hand, but perhaps not in this manner. A homeowner discovered Sunday morning that the door of his residence had been covered in tomato sauce sometime throughout the n...
Feb 16, 2021
Judge Denies Bail for Man Who Allegedly Threatened the Lives of Politicians
George Brake, the man accused of planning to execute politicians in the provincial election, has been denied bail. Last week, the 66-year-old man was found fit to stand trial after a two-week psychiat...
Feb 16, 2021
NL Confirms 7 New Cases of COVID-19, Another 25 Presumptive Positives
There are seven newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province today and another 25 presumptive positives. All the cases are in the Eastern Health region, and each person has been directed to isola...
Feb 16, 2021 (Photo: City of Mount Pearl)
CUPE Calls for Higher-Quality Respirators for Health Care Workers
CUPE is calling for better protection for all health care workers who work in an environment where they will be in close proximity to patients who have or may have the virus. President Sherry Hillier ...
Feb 16, 2021 (Photo by Banej via Creative Commons..)
Union says Postal Workers Prepared for Challenges Posed by Shift to Mail-In Ballots
The union representing local postal workers says they're up to the challenge of the mail-in ballot process for the provincial election. ElectionsNL decided to switch completely to the mail-in process ...
Feb 16, 2021
Second RCMP Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19
A second RCMP employee in the Eastern Health region has tested positive for COVID-19. The RCMP says the positive test result was received yesterday, and both are connected to community spread in the r...
Feb 16, 2021
Man Arrested for Impaired Driving After Striking Home in Brigus Junction
A man from Brigus Junction was arrested for drunk driving after his truck struck a home in the community on Valentine's Day afternoon. While police from Holyrood and Traffic Services East were en rout...
Feb 16, 2021
