Category Archives: Local News

The City of St. John's has proclaimed this to be AccessAbility Week, as it's also celebrated across the rest of the country. It's marked to acknowledge and help create awareness of the importance of a...

Parishioners in Portugal Cove South trying to save their church from landing in the hands of others are running out of options. The property is up for sale with an asking price of under $40,000, but a...

The federal government is moving to repeal the law which allowed it to apply a carbon tax to the price of gas. Prime Minister Mark Carney removed the tax a couple of months ago through regulations, bu...

An off-duty RNC officer was Johnny-on-the-spot last evening after witnessing a man stealing from a business in the centre city. The officer reported the theft to the RNC and the 23-year-old man was ta...

Justice Minister John Haggie says work is already underway to address many of the issues recently outlined in a report from the Policing Transformation Working Group. The report, which was administere...

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after falling off a roof of a home he was working on yesterday. Emergency crews rushed to the home in Paradise just before 6:00 last evening. Police say the ...

People across the province are being asked to wear red on Wednesday in support of Red Shirt Day - a national movement to promote accessibility and inclusion for Canadians of all abilities. National Ac...

NL Health Services is working on a plan to pitch to government, to tackle overcapacity in its hospitals. CEO Dr. Pat Parfrey says it has everything to do with alternative levels of care, and creating ...

The case involving a Waterford Hospital patient charged with second-degree murder was called this afternoon in St. John's. Thirty-year-old Tom Parsley was initially charged with attempted murder of an...

A Hopedale man charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder was back before a judge this afternoon. The case was called today while the court was on circuit in Port Hope Simpson. But there wa...