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Blue Jays Drop Game 2 in Toronto
The L.A. Dodgers evened the World Series with a 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game, the first pitcher to do so in the World Series since 2015. Will Smith hi...
Oct 26, 2025 (Toronto Blue Jays/Facebook)
$50,000 Study to Explore Transit Needs on Rural Avalon
The federal government is going to spend money studying the options for establishing some type of public transit system in a rural area of the Avalon Peninsula. The feasibility study, to cost $50,000,...
Oct 26, 2025 Scott Graham / Unsplash
Former MHA Questions Need for Another Hydro MOU Review
A man who did not run in the election this time around is scratching his head over what another independent review of the MOU would accomplish. Perry Trimper, who won elections both as a Liberal and a...
Oct 26, 2025 Perry Trimper delivers final statement in the House of Assembly (HoA)
New Report Highlights Nurse Retention Crisis
Canada is burning through its young nurses at an alarming rate as healthcare systems across the country struggle to retain them. The information is revealed in a new publication released by the Montre...
Oct 25, 2025
Women's Film Festival Wraps Up Successful Week in St. John's
The St. John's Women's International Film Festival wraps up this evening with a closing party at the Ship Pub. The festival opened earlier this week with a red-carpet gala Tuesday night. Filmmaker Vic...
Oct 25, 2025 SJIWFF 2025
Driver Charged After Vehicle Ends Up in Ditch
A 35-year-old woman has been charged with impaired driving after crashing her vehicle in Wabush over the lunch hour Friday. RNC in Labrador West say her vehicle left the road and ended up in a ditch n...
Oct 25, 2025
NAPE President Urges New Government to Abandon P3 Model
NAPE President Jerry Earle says he's hoping to have a sit-down with Premier-designate Tony Wakeham to find ways to move away from public-private partnerships when it comes to developing public infrast...
Oct 25, 2025 NAPE President Jerry Earle
From 27 Hires to One: Lab Assistant Highlights Impact of Program Move
A lab technician at the Health Sciences says moving the Medical Laboratory Assistant training program to Grand Falls-Windsor has had a huge impact on overtime worked in her department. Ashley Carew sa...
Oct 25, 2025 Lab Technician Ashley Carew
COVID-19 on the Rise in Newfoundland and Labrador
The number of COVID cases in Newfoundland and Labrador is on the rise. The chief medical officer of health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says confirmed cases of COVID have increased since August and she expe...
Oct 25, 2025 Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald
Westbound Lanes of Outer Ring Closed After Rollover
There has been an accident on the Outer Ring Road. A car rolled in the westbound lanes near the Team Gushue turnoff. All westbound traffic will have to divert at the Team Gushue; traffic on Gushue can...
Oct 25, 2025 ORR Westbound traffic is being diverted after a rollover accident.
