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More Attention Needed on Off-Road Vehicle Regulations says Child Death Review Committee
The province's Child Death Review Committee is recommending that the provincial government consider a public education campaign emphasizing the legal requirements and penalties related to the Off-Road...
Aug 28, 2025 An ATV seized from a teenage driver in Paradise (RNC)
Fire Damages Unoccupied Home on Lincoln Road in GF-W
The RCMP are investigating a fire at a home in Grand Falls-Windsor on Wednesday. It broke out at a structure on Lincoln Road just before 9:30 p.m. but firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze. The ...
Aug 28, 2025 Damage caused to the home on Lincoln Road in GF-W (RCMP)
Concerned Citizens NL calls Upper Churchill MOU 'Biggest Strategic Error' in NL's History
A group of prominent leaders in Newfoundland and Labrador have banded together to try to convince the provincial government to abandon the current MOU with Quebec on hydro development in Labrador. For...
Aug 28, 2025 Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Eastlink Warns of Possible Service Cuts in NL Due to CRTC Regulations
Eastlink, which provides cable and internet services to many rural communities across the province, says it may have to cut some of its services in Newfoundland and Labrador because of CRTC regulation...
Aug 28, 2025 (Photo via Eastlink)
Nurse and Doctor Staffing at NLHS at Pre-COVID Levels says Health Authority
The province is adding nurses and doctors to the point where the system is where it was pre-Covid in 2019. Nurse vacancies have dropped from 695 three years ago to 280 currently, while the province ha...
Aug 28, 2025 Health Minister Krista Lynn Howell and NLHS CEO Dr. Pat Parfrey (VOCM News)
Long-Awaited Education Accord Released
The provincial government has publicly released the long-awaited Education Accord. The 410-page document is being touted as a 10-year vision that will help modernize and transform the province's educa...
Aug 28, 2025 Dr. Anne Burke, Minister Bernard Davis, and Dr. Karen Goodnough (VOCM News)
Officer Who Didn't Charge Humby in 2007, Testifies She No Longer Stands by That Decision
The police officer who decided not to charge Tony Humby in 2007 says she would've made a different decision today. RNC Sergeant Corrine James, who retired in 2020, handled the initial complaints again...
Aug 28, 2025 (VOCM News )
Man Charged for Intentionally Setting Fire in Capital City
The RNC has arrested a man for intentionally setting a fire in the capital city's east end. RNC say a homeowner on New Cove Road awoke to discover fire damage to their property. The damage was minor a...
Aug 28, 2025 Damage caused by fire on a back deck in Pleasantville (submitted photos)
Evacuation Order Lifted in Kingston, and Small Point-Broad Cove-Blackhead-Adam's Cove, Residents Allowed Back, Others Asked to Stay Away
The provincial government has lifted the evacuation order for the communities of Kingston, and Small Point-Broad Cove-Blackhead-Adam's Cove. The evacuation order was issued soon after the fire that be...
Aug 28, 2025 A sign at the Salem Community Centre welcomes returning fire evacuees
Local Businesses and Organizations Pledging Donations Toward Wildfire Relief
Businesses and organizations are coming together to help first responders and those affected by the wildfire in Conception Bay North. Trades NL, which represents 14,000 skilled trades workers in the p...
Aug 28, 2025 The fire burning in Conception Bay North (via Canadian Coast Guard/DFO)
