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Environment Canada Maintains Forecast for Active Hurricane Season
The hurricane season is still on track to be an above normal or near normal year for hurricanes in the Atlantic basin. Environment Canada meteorologist Ian Hubbard says while it's early in the season,...
Aug 03, 2025 (Insurance Business North America)
Public Advised to Give Young Bats Space as Sightings Increase
This is the time of year when young bats are learning to fly and hunt at night, so bat sightings may become more common in the coming days. The government department responsible for wildlife says when...
Aug 03, 2025 Photo courtesy of the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture
Community Rallies to Rebuild Quidi Vidi Landmark After Fire
An online fundraiser has been launched to replace one of the iconic stages in Quidi Vidi consumed by fire earlier this week. Both stages were owned by the same family and Lisa Parsons says her father ...
Aug 03, 2025 (VOCM News)
St. John's Board of Trade Denounces Federal Ferry Strategy
The St. John's Board of Trade has written Prime Minister Mark Carney, saying the decision to reduce passenger rates on Marine Atlantic falls "significantly short of what is required." The Prime Minist...
Aug 03, 2025
Overdue Hiker Found Safe on East Coast Trail
A man hiking the East Coast Trail who was reported overdue was located just before 2:00 this morning. An experienced hiker, he had set up camp for several hours in the Shoal Bay Road area. The St. Joh...
Aug 03, 2025
Police Nab Teens Fleeing St. John's School Break-In
Two teenagers who were caught by police breaking into a school in St. John's weren't about to make things easy for law enforcement. RNC officers got a call from the public at about 10:00 last night th...
Aug 03, 2025
Loud Booms, Smoke Force Evacuation of Downtown Condominium
Twenty-five people at a condominium in the east end of downtown have been evacuated from their homes after a situation overnight in Cavendish Square near the Sheraton. The RNC say people heard loud bo...
Aug 03, 2025
Province Awards Galloper Gold Exclusive Rights to Glover Island Minerals
The province has awarded Galloper Gold Corporation exclusive mineral rights to the Glover Island Exempt Mineral Land on the province's west coast. Galloper Gold is a junior exploration company that ho...
Aug 03, 2025 (Via Galloper Gold)
Traffic Stop Reveals Multiple Offences, $12,000 in Outstanding Fines
Police threw the book at a man caught driving a motorcycle without any credentials but who is significantly indebted to the Crown. The RNC pulled over the 48-year-old in the east end of St. John's aro...
Aug 02, 2025
Car Destined for Junkyard Impounded After Traffic Stop
The RNC pulled over a wreck in the east end of St. John's yesterday afternoon that had been destined for the junkyard but instead found its way to the streets of metro. Motor Registration had listed t...
Aug 02, 2025
