Category Archives: Local News

The minister of justice and public safety recently returned from meetings with her provincial and territorial counterparts in Toronto, an experience that she calls a good opportunity for dialogue on e...

The province's Seniors' Advocate is urging the provincial government to implement what she calls continuum of care legislation. Susan Walsh released her annual report on the wellbeing of seniors earli...

NL Health Services' annual Pack the Back toy, food, and clothes drive is back for another year. Each year, members of the health authority's paramedicine and medical transport teams ask the public to ...

Two local moms, Dawn White and Cindy Grimes, both raising autistic toddlers, found themselves searching for a place where their children would not just be accepted, but celebrated. When they couldn't ...

As we inch closer to the Christmas holidays, one of the stalwarts on the music scene has memorialized a fellow musician in song. Mark Hiscock, who was one of the best on the button accordion, left us ...

The provincial government can now forge ahead with a clear, but razor-thin majority, in the House of Assembly. Paul Dinn's victory in Topsail-Paradise was maintained after a judicial recount that wrap...

More than 300 junior high students representing 20 schools across the province are competing in the annual Skills Canada Intermediate Challenge at the College of the North Atlantic's Prince Philip Dri...

It took a while but RNC officers were able to catch up with a man suspected of being impaired while cruising around metro. He first came to the attention of police in Mount Pearl around lunchtime. The...

A woman has been charged after somebody was causing a fuss at a health facility in St. John's last night. The RNC arrived at about 9:00 to spot the suspect briskly walking across the parking lot. The ...

Canada Post and its employees have reached some sort of tentative agreement, although it's unclear just what it is. The Crown corporation says further talks are required before they reach the point wh...