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Ten People Charged in Connection with Project Bourbon - Largest Cocaine and Tobacco Seizure in NL
Ten people have been arrested and charged as part of what the RCMP are calling the province's largest seizure of cocaine and tobacco. Now, charges have been filed against 10 people. Those are 41-year-...
Oct 09, 2025 Inspector Dave Emberly at RCMP Headquarters detailing arrests and charges laid in Project Bourbon (VOCM News)
56-year-old Man Arrested and Charged After Shots Fired in South Brook
A 56-year-old man is facing weapons-related charges after shots were fired and a shelter-in-place was issued in South Brook yesterday. RCMP from Springdale and Grand Falls-Windsor responded to a distu...
Oct 09, 2025
Police Issue Warrant for Bishop's Falls Man
An arrest warrant has been issued by the courts for 44-year-old Kevin William Hynes of Bishop's Falls. RCMP believe Hynes may be in Bishop's Falls, or Grand Falls-Windsor. Hynes is wanted by the court...
Oct 09, 2025 Kevin William Hynes (RCMP)
Food Inflation in Atlantic Canada Well Above National Average: Statistics Canada
Grocery prices are continuing to rise, and Atlantic Canada is seeing the brunt of those increases. According to Statistics Canada, the food inflation rate in Newfoundland and Labrador was 4.2 per cent...
Oct 09, 2025 (VOCM News)
Wanted Man Arrested by RCMP
RCMP have arrested a man .wanted on a number of serious charges Forty-seven-year-old Jamie Hoyles was wanted on two counts of assault, three counts of criminal harassment and 18 counts of failure to c...
Oct 09, 2025 Jamie Holyes (RCMP)
Dump Truck Off Road Near Wabush, Traffic Reduced to One Lane
RNC in Lab West are warning of a traffic disruption on the Trans Labrador Highway near the Wabush weigh scales. A dump truck has left the road in the area, and traffic is reduced to a single lane. RNC...
Oct 09, 2025
UPDATE: Traffic Moving Once Again on TCH Near Arnold's Cove
Traffic is flowing once again in both directions following a lengthy traffic disruption on the Trans Canada Highway this morning. Emergency responders were called to the scene of what RCMP called a se...
Oct 09, 2025
Price of Average Home in Metro Cracks $400,000 Mark Over Summer
Home prices in the metro region are rising three times the rate of inflation and, for the first time ever, the price of an average home cracked the $400,000 mark. A house which sold for about $265,000...
Oct 09, 2025
UPDATE: Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted in Centre City
A shelter in place order has been lifted in the centre city area. Residents in the Lemarchant Road, Lime Street, Livingstone Street and Barters Hill area were asked to stay indoors this morning with w...
Oct 09, 2025 (VOCM News)
St. John's International Installing Local Artwork
St. John's International Airport is celebrating the installation of some new artwork today. It recently partnered with Business and Arts NL to commission three public art installations at their facili...
Oct 09, 2025
