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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)
Sheep Badly Burned in CBN Fire Showing Extraordinary Will to Live
People across the province have been watching the work being done to help rescue and rehabilitate animals caught in the fire evacuation zone in Conception Bay North and one plucky little sheep is gett...
Aug 28, 2025 (Newlife Rescue/Facebook)
RCMP Officer Outwits Territorial Bald Eagle Loitering Outside Placentia Nursing Home
Police work can sometimes expose officers to some pretty unusual situations that may never be repeated. Such was the case in Placentia this week, when Constable Todd Hussey was called to the Lion's Ma...
Aug 28, 2025 (RCMP)
NDP Reiterates Promise to Introduce Rent Controls
NDP leader Jim Dinn has doubled down on his promise to introduce rent controls, with a provincial election call in the offing any day now. Dinn made the campaign promise in the apartment of Dale Baggs...
Aug 28, 2025 Jim Dinn (VOCM News)
Private Nurse Practitioners to Receive Government Funding for Services Under Pilot Project
The province is introducing a pilot project in which nurse practitioners who run their own clinics will receive government funding for services provided. It's hoped that the pilot will help patients g...
Aug 28, 2025 Health Minister Krista Lynn Howell, Premier John Hogan, President of the NL Nurse Practitioners Association, Jessica Peddle (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
