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Rural Communities Ponder a Future with Regionalization Across Province
The President of Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador says questions remain surrounding what a regionalization model would look like in this province. Sheila Fitzgerald is the mayor of Roddickton-...
Jan 10, 2020
Post Snow Cold Snap Puts Province in Deep Freeze
It's a bitterly cold day on the island and colder in Labrador. A cold snap throughout the province resulted in overnight temperatures including the wind chill of -25 on the Avalon, -33 in St . Anthony...
Jan 10, 2020
Fresh Snow Helps Marble Mountain Kick off 2020 Season
After a tenuous start to the year, Marble Mountain officially opens for the season today thanks to a well-needed dose of snow. The skiing season got off to a slow start with little snow and less-than-...
Jan 10, 2020
PCs, NDP Slam Government's "Smoke and Mirrors" Pre-Budget Consultations
The PC's are reiterating claims from the NDP, calling government's "11th-hour pre-budget consultations" a sham. PC Finance Critic Tony Wakeham says the departments and agencies prepared their budget s...
Jan 10, 2020
Pair of Teens Arrested After Assaulting Police
A game of hide and seek with police ended with some hefty charges for a pair of St. John's teens. RNC officers responded to a disturbance on Queens Road around 8:30 last night. After a brief investiga...
Jan 10, 2020
Student Brings World Juniors Champ Dawson Mercer to School for 'Show and Tell'
Dawson Mercer is continuing to put big smiles on faces across the country, this time a grade one class at Coley's Point Primary. Collette Dawson asked her daughter Beth what she wanted to take to scho...
Jan 09, 2020
Miawpukek First Nation Opens Memorial Park in Honour of Chantel John
The close-knit community of Conne River has been coping as best as it can in the year since the murder of one of their own. 28-year-old Chantel John was killed one year ago. Kirk Keeping of St. Jacque...
Jan 09, 2020 (Images courtesy Miawpukek Mi'kamawey Mawi'omi.)
Trudeau: Intelligence Suggests Iranian Missile Behind Ukrainian Plane Crash
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says evidence suggests that an Iranian missile was behind the destruction of a Ukrainian International Airlines flight near Tehran on Tuesday night. The flight was headed...
Jan 09, 2020 (Photo via CPAC.)
RNC Identify Suspect in Bond Street Homicide
The RNC have identified a suspect in the violent death of a man on Bond Street in November. Police have not yet made an arrest, and no charges have yet been laid. Joe Connor Hapgood, 23, died after a ...
Jan 09, 2020 (An RNC officer remains on the scene of a fatal shooting on Bond Street. November, 2019.)
One Taken to Hospital with Serious Injuries Following Collision Near Melrose
Police are on the scene of a two vehicle collision on Route 230 about five kilometers south of Melrose. There were two people in each vehicle. One man has been taken to hospital with unknown, but seri...
Jan 09, 2020
