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Food Bank Use Highlighted on National Food Bank Day
Today is National Food Bank Day, a time to recognize the need for food banks, especially in this province. Sixty different food banks make up the Community Food Sharing Association and general manager...
Sep 05, 2025
Employment Levels Drop in August
Canada lost 66,000 jobs in August, most of which were part-time employment. As a result, the jobless rate nationally jumped to 7.1 per cent from 6.9. Newfoundland and Labrador also saw an increase in ...
Sep 05, 2025
Details of Crash That Claimed Lives of Two Young Women Read Aloud in Court
The painful facts of a crash that killed two young women on the Trans-Canada Highway last year were read aloud in Clarenville provincial court this morning. Erin Pretty and Haley Keating, both 22, die...
Sep 05, 2025 Erin Pretty (left) and Haley Keating (Facebook)
Flanders Out of Service for Up to Two Months as it Undergoes Extensive Engine Repairs
The Flanders, a ferry that typically serves the Bell Island run, will be out of service for up to two months as it undergoes extensive engine repair work. The Department of Transportation says the fer...
Sep 05, 2025 (File photo.)
New Addictions Facility Aims to Significantly Cut Wait Lists
It's all about achieving sobriety, and a new facility just outside St. John's will begin treating patients next week. The Vida Nova Recovery Centre, located on the site of the former Lavrock Centre on...
Sep 05, 2025 (Vida Nova Recovery)
Three Local Resource-based Developments on Draft List of Federal 'Nation Building' Projects
The Globe and Mail has acquired a draft list of 32 major "nation building" projects and Strange Lake, Bay du Nord, and hydro development at Gull Island are among them. The Globe says among the eight m...
Sep 05, 2025 Illustration of the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit and tiebacks to oilfields. (Equinor)
Applications Open for One-Time Business Stipend for Operations Affected by Wildfires
Applications are now open for a government stipend for businesses affected by the fire in Conception Bay North. The stipend offers one-time financial support to eligible small and medium-sized busines...
Sep 05, 2025 The entrance to Ochre Pit Cove with the Red Ochre Cafe in the background, August, 2025 (VOCM News)
Marine Institute Students on Learning Experience of a Lifetime
Students from the Marine Institute are participating in a floating classroom on board the schooner Ernestina-Morrissey. The vessel is used to provide hands-on training for future mariners and is opera...
Sep 05, 2025 Students on board the training vessel the Ernestina-Morrissey (submitted)
NL Housing Seeking Contractor for New Pleasantville Apartment Complex
Newfoundland and Labrador Housing is looking for someone to build a 40-unit apartment building in Pleasantville. To be located on St. John's Place on the corner of Charter Avenue, the structure would ...
Sep 05, 2025
VOCM Cares Foundation Launches Disaster Relief Fund
It's not something that's used very often, but VOCM Cares Foundation has launched its Emergency Relief Fund, a program available at times of crisis or for disaster relief. The fund will be activated f...
Sep 05, 2025 Scorched landscape, looking inland, Western Bay (VOCM News)
