Category Archives: Local News

The spring session of the House of Assembly is being extended. Deputy Government House Leader Joedy Wall gave a Notice of Motion on the matter in the Legislature yesterday. He says the sitting will be...

Tim Hortons has launched a campaign to hire 10,000 workers this year. The company says 4,000 of its 110,000 workers across Canada are temporary foreign workers, a number that it says has steadily decl...

Work begins today on the Foxtrap Access Overpass. The eastbound left lane of the Trans Canada will be closed while work is underway. Drivers can also expect lane closures, controlled by automated traf...

A heavily damaged truck towing a floating dock recently caught the attention of a patrol officer on the Bay d'Espoir highway. RCMP say the officer was travelling in the area on Saturday and noticed a ...

Gas is back up over the $2 dollar a litre mark again. The PUB has raised the price of gas by 2.4 cents. Diesel on the island increases by 2 and a half cents and about 2 cents in Labrador West. Furnace...

The proposed construction of a new breakwater in Petty Harbour has been submitted to the provincial government for environmental assessment. DFO is proposing to construct a 120-metre rock breakwater o...

One man is dead following a crash on the TCH just outside of St. John's last Friday, which involved a dump truck and three other vehicles. Emergency crews were called to an area east of the Danny Driv...

St. Mary's Church in Harbour Mille on the Burin Peninsula will be demolished in the coming days after a last-ditch effort to save the heritage structure fell through. The Anglican Diocese of Central N...

A 34-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in connection with a stabbing in Natuashish. RCMP say a man showed up at the local detachment Saturday evening with an apparent stab wound. Officers p...

Two men from Quebec have been arrested and charged after a traffic stop on the Trans Labrador Highway resulted in the seizure of drugs, and cash. RCMP stopped the vehicle near Happy Valley-Goose Bay o...