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Province Beginning Roll Out of Bus Passes for Income Support Clients
Bus passes will soon be in the hands of income support clients in metro-free of charge-as part of a new public transit initiative. About 10,000 people are on the list to receive the Metrobus passes. T...
Sep 18, 2020
Government Preparing Plans to Give Flu Shots in Schools and Long-Term Care Homes
The provincial government wants people to get their flu shots this year and is making it easier for people to do so. In the coming weeks, government will roll out plans to start administering flu shot...
Sep 18, 2020
Stolen Cars, Speeding Drivers, and Crashes Make for Busy Day for West Coast RNC
Police on the West Coast have had their hands full the past 24 hours. A vehicle and tools were stolen from a business in the Humbermouth area overnight Wednesday. Early last evening, the RNC spotted t...
Sep 18, 2020
Health Minister Touts Effectiveness of Travel Ban as Other Parts of Canada See Surge
Health Minister John Haggie says he realizes placing restrictions on travel to and from Newfoundland and Labrador has been a tough pill for many to swallow. However, he says yesterday's court ruling u...
Sep 18, 2020
VOCM Receives Media Award for Coverage of Mental Health Issues
VOCM News has been recognized by the Canadian Mental Health Association with their Media Award for 2020. The award recognizes a person, group, or organization that has shown outstanding quality promot...
Sep 18, 2020
Newfoundland Growlers Owner Reaches Deal to Bring New Team to Iowa
The owner of the Newfoundland Growlers now has a second ECHL hockey team. Dean MacDonald has reached an agreement with the City of Coralville and ArenaCo to have a hockey team in the eastern Iowa city...
Sep 18, 2020 (Dean MacDonald, file photo.)
C-NLOPB Reports Fire on Board Rescue Craft
There were no injuries after a fire broke out early Wednesday morning on a fast rescue craft on board the Siem Diamond-a vessel on stand-by for Equinor's drill rig, the Transocean Barents. The C-NLOPB...
Sep 18, 2020 Photo by Dean Porter
Health Officials Urge Public to Get Flu Shot When Clinics Open in October
The province's Chief Medical Officer of Health is urging Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to get a flu shot this fall when clinics open in late October. Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says now that schools are...
Sep 17, 2020
Former Mount Pearl Mayor, Speaker of the House of Assembly Harvey Hodder Passes Away
A former Speaker of the House of Assembly has died. Harvey Hodder was 77. Hodder was born in 1943 in Creston South on the Burin Peninsula. He served as the Progressive Conservative MHA for the distric...
Sep 17, 2020
Contentious Interim Supply Bill Receives Approval with Amendments
After weeks of political posturing, the House of Assembly has passed the contentious interim supply bill. The bill is actually an amended version of the original proposal put forth by the minority Lib...
Sep 17, 2020
