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Police Arrest Man with Trailer Stolen from Alberta
A 28-year-old man is facing a charge of possession of stolen property following a traffic stop near Deer Lake on Sunday. RCMP pulled over a pick-up towing a trailer around 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning. A ...
Jun 01, 2020
Grand Falls-Windsor Woman Charged with Impaired After Vehicle Collides with McDonald's
A 48-year-old Grand Falls-Windsor woman is facing impaired driving charges after the car she was allegedly driving scraped up against a commercial building in the town. The woman was arrested after a ...
Jun 01, 2020
House of Assembly to Reopen Following Move to Alert Level 3
The House of Assembly is reopening on Tuesday June 9th to conduct business not attended to due to the pandemic. That's the day after the province officially moves to the next alert level and the easin...
Jun 01, 2020
CMOH Reports Four Days with No New COVID-19 Cases
There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report today with only a week to go before the province moves to Alert Level 3 and the lifting of more public health restrictions. Alert Level 3 will include the ...
Jun 01, 2020
Privacy Commissioner Faults Department for Missing Information Related to Controversial Hiring at the Rooms
The province's Privacy Commissioner has found that the department responsible for The Rooms failed in its duty to assist with an access to information request related to the creation of a controversia...
Jun 01, 2020
NL Loosening Bidding Rules to Help Local Businesses
The provincial government is going to give public bodies more leeway to bypass the low bidder when awarding contracts in order to favour local companies. Finance Minister Tom Osborne says the changes ...
Jun 01, 2020
'Pothole Man' Ernest Barnes Fears Worst While Stuck in Backlog for Heart Surgery
A man who is best known for drawing attention to the condition of the roads in the Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay area fears he won't survive the wait for needed heart surgery. Ernest Barnes is also k...
Jun 01, 2020
Man, 61, Dead Following Single-Vehicle Collision Near Newman's Cove
A 61-year-old Bonavista man is dead after a single-vehicle collision just north of Newman's Cove on Thursday. Bonavista RCMP responded to the area around 1:50, Thursday afternoon. The vehicle left the...
Jun 01, 2020
Fred Hutton Ends Journalism Career
Fred Hutton has left the airwaves for the political field. Hutton, who returned to VOCM late last summer as co-host of the Morning Show, is taking up a communications position with Andrew Furey-one of...
Jun 01, 2020 (File Photo, June 2020)
Firefighters to Pay Tribute to Men Lost in Tragedy at Sea
The Association of Fire Services will pay tribute this evening to two volunteer firefighters who were among four men who lost their lives in the sinking of the Sarah Anne off St. Lawrence just over a ...
Jun 01, 2020
