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Jury Selected in Day One of Six-Week Second-Degree Murder Trial
The Crown provided a snapshot of its case for the jury late yesterday in the second-degree murder trial for 24-year-old Robert Belbin. Belbin, and the victim, 22-year-old Seamus Secord, were not stran...
Sep 23, 2025 Robert Belbin in Supreme Court, September 22, 2025 (VOCM News)
Man Facing Drunk Driving Charges After Vehicle Lands in Ditch
A man has been charged with drunk driving after crashing his vehicle into a ditch yesterday morning. Police were called around 10:00 to reports of a possible drunk driver in a ditch. When officers arr...
Sep 23, 2025
Coffin Not First Candidate to Run in Two Separate Districts
Former NDP Leader Alison Coffin is challenging electoral reform and is running independently in two separate districts this election. It has happened before - but you have to go back 156 years to find...
Sep 23, 2025 Alison Coffin (VOCM News)
Irving Oil Offering Free Parking at Janeway on Wednesday
Patients at the Janeway in St. John's will be able park for free tomorrow as part of an initiative by Irving Oil. The company is celebrating 23 years of its Fuel the Care program, an initiative in whi...
Sep 23, 2025
Officer's Efforts to Rescue Woman Stuck on Cliff at Middle Cove Beach All in a Day's Work: RNC
RNC is offering a few more details about one responding officer who went above and beyond in helping a young person stuck on a cliff near the East Coast Trail in Middle Cove on Sunday. The officer scr...
Sep 23, 2025
Man Charged with Impaired After Brief Chase on Kenmount Road
A man who was putting others on the road in danger is facing impaired driving charges. Officers patrolling Kenmount Road last night noticed a vehicle clipping along at 82 km/h in the 50 km/h zone. RNC...
Sep 23, 2025
Firearms Seized After Group Allegedly Threatened in Happy Valley-Goose Bay
RCMP say six firearms have been seized following an incident in Happy Valley-Goose Bay over the weekend. Police were first called just before 1:30 Sunday morning. They say a group of people in the san...
Sep 22, 2025 RCMP detachment in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. (Google Maps)
PCs Promise to Hire More ER Doctors, RNs and NPs if Elected
Healthcare was the focus as PC leader Tony Wakeham's campaign tour made a stop in Lewisporte today. Wakeham says the Lewisporte ER has been left without an in-person doctor several times in recent mon...
Sep 22, 2025 Tony Wakeham and Lewisporte-Twillingate PC Candidate Mark Butt (via PC Party of NL)
Aquaculture Industry Seeking Leaders' Positions on Proposed National Marine Conservation Area Off South Coast
The fish farming industry is calling on the three party leaders to state their position on the creation of a vast marine conservation zone on the south coast which it says will kill aquaculture, fishi...
Sep 22, 2025 A graphic supplied by the NAIA showing the size of the proposed National Marine Conservation Area off the province's south coast compared to the size of Prince Edward Island (NAIA)
St. John's International Film Festival Lineup Announced
The St. John's International Women's Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year's event. The five-day festival features a mix of feature films, short films, documentaries, and film industry ...
Sep 22, 2025 Executive Director of the St. John's International Film Festival, Jenn Brown (VOCM News)
