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Man Charged with Impaired After Crashing Motorcycle in Stephenville
A 46-year-old man has been charged after a motorcycle crash in Stephenville on Sunday. Bay St. George RCMP responded to the scene on Georgia Drive just before 9:30 Sunday evening. Responding officers ...
Aug 26, 2025
Province Adds Nearly 600 New $10-a-day Child Care Spaces
The provincial government is sanctioning another 574 new child care spaces, part of the $10-a-day program. The newly announced spaces are spread among 25 centres across the Avalon Peninsula and throug...
Aug 26, 2025 Education Minister Bernard Davis (VOCM News)
Government Providing Details on Back-to-School Benefit
The provincial government is set to announce the details of a new Back-to-School benefit for single parents and others who may otherwise struggle to fit their kids out for school. The province is prov...
Aug 26, 2025
RCMP Being Assisted in Investigation into Series of Fires in Conception Bay North
Trinity-Conception RCMP are being assisted in their investigation into the fires in the Small Point - Broad Cove - Blackhead and Adam's Cove area by investigators from Major Crimes and their General I...
Aug 26, 2025
Metro Police Seize Jalopy Held Together by Duct Tape
A man is without his vehicle after RNC found it was not fit to be on the road. Officers hauled the car over on Elizabeth Avenue just after 9:00 yesterday morning after noticing the vehicle had a smash...
Aug 26, 2025 (RNC)
24-year-old Charged After Shots Fired at Home in Aspen Cove
RCMP in Gander are investigating reports of shots fired at a home in Aspen Cove late last week. Police were contacted around 3:00 Friday afternoon about multiple shots fired at a home on the Main Road...
Aug 25, 2025 Aspen Cove (via Google)
Wind Energy Projects Given Crown Land Reserve Extensions
The provincial government is again going to give companies who are pursuing wind-hydrogen products more time to do so without relinquishing access to Crown land. Energy Minister Steve Crocker has exte...
Aug 25, 2025 Photo via Gov NL Hydrogen Development Action Plan
Emergency Fire Reception Centre for Evacuees Moving from Carbonear Academy to The Splash Centre in Harbour Grace
The provincial government is moving its wildfire reception centre for people who have been evacuated as a result of the fire on the Conception Bay North Shore. The province says the new reception cent...
Aug 25, 2025 The Splash Centre in Harbour Grace (via Facebook)
Sheshatshiu Man Facing Additional Charges Related to Multiple Fires Set
A 24-year-old man is facing some serious charges related to multiple fires set in Sheshatshiu last week. The fires, set on Friday, caused damage to five structures and six vehicles in the community. R...
Aug 25, 2025 Dolphin Scott Rich (RCMP)
NLHS on Track to Introduction of Single Digital Health System in the Spring
Everything remains on track for what managers call the greatest transformation the province's health care system will have ever seen. Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is launching CorCare in ...
Aug 25, 2025 Health Sciences Centre (VOCM News)
