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Campaign Encourages Shoppers to Think Local, Invest in NL
They're not telling people to give up shopping at Big Box stores, but a movement started by two entrepreneurs running two completely different businesses aims to convince people to buy local. The "I B...
Jul 24, 2019 (Photo courtesy 'i buy local' via Facebook.)
Lieutenant Governor's Garden Party This Afternoon at Government House
The big hats and flowery dresses come alive today at Government House next to Bannerman Park. The sun isn't shining but the Lieutenant Governor's garden party is going ahead this afternoon. It will be...
Jul 24, 2019 (Lieutenant Governor's garden party, July 2018. File photo.)
Province Reaches Methylmercury Agreement with Two of Three Indigenous Groups
The province now has an agreement in place with two of three Indigenous groups: the Innu Nation and NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC), but not the Nunatsiavut Government (NG). The agreement is to ta...
Jul 24, 2019 (Muskrat Falls Generation Facility, June 2019. Photo courtesy Nalcor.)
Motorcyclists to Fill the Streets in Second Annual Memorial Ride for Nevaeh Denine
Motorcyclists are being invited to take to the streets in the second annual Memorial Ride for Nevaeh Denine. The inaugural event saw hundreds of bikers fill the streets in memory of nine-year-old Neva...
Jul 24, 2019 (Inaugural motorcycle ride for Nevaeh, courtesy Joe Gallant via Facebook.)
RNC Seek Footage in Pedestrian Hit and Run Investigation
RNC are looking for footage of a pedestrian hit-and-run on Sunday evening in west-end St. John's. A person was hit by a Jeep in the area of Blackmarsh Road and Columbus Drive at about 6:30. He is in s...
Jul 24, 2019 (Photo by Earl Noble.)
Investigation Into Child Porn Download Led Police to Kilbride Home, Court Hears
The RCMP traced an IP address used to download child pornography to a home in Kilbride where 52-year-old Thomas Patrick O'Grady was living in 2016. Those details were heard yesterday at O'Grady's chil...
Jul 24, 2019
Man Convicted of Killing Child to Appear in St. John's Court for Armed Home Invasion
A man convicted of killing a three-year-old boy in Ontario will have a bail hearing tomorrow in St. John's Provincial Court in connection with an armed home invasion in Kilbride last week. In the earl...
Jul 24, 2019
Drop in Gas, Oil Prices Predicted This Week
Fuel Prices are going down this week. George Murphy of the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices says prices will be dropping across the board. Gasoline is showing a drop of 4.3 cents, diesel is forecast...
Jul 24, 2019
Tensions Run High in HoA During Methylmercury and Muskrat Falls Debate
Tensions were high when it came to methylmercury and Muskrat Falls during question period on the one day the House of Assembly opened this summer. PC MHA for the Torngat Mountains, Lela Evans question...
Jul 23, 2019
Complainant from Jian Ghomeshi Trial Participates in Sexual Assault and the Law Panel Discussion in St. John's
One of the complainants in the Jian Ghomeshi trial was in St. John's last night for a panel discussion on sexual assault and the law. Ghomeshi, a popular host on national TV at the time, was acquitted...
Jul 23, 2019
