Category Archives: Local News

Time is running out to get in on the VOCM Cares 50/50 cash draw, with the jackpot now at $155,000 and climbing. Today is the final day to purchase tickets, with all proceeds supporting communities and...

The NunatuKavut Community Council has launched an online petition calling on Memorial University to drop its draft Indigenous verification policy. NCC President Todd Russell says the policy is specifi...

RCMP have arrested a 27-year-old man wanted on a number of serious charges. An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Lewis earlier today. Bay Roberts RCMP confirmed this afternoon that Lewis has been ar...

Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick have inked an agreement on free trade and labour mobility. The memorandum of understanding was signed this afternoon by premiers Andrew Furey and Susan Holt...

There has been a noticeable increase in the number of shelter-in-place orders being issued by police in recent weeks, which is something that is raising questions from a criminologist at Memorial Univ...

Owners of the Cochrane Pond campground appeared in provincial court this morning, accused of almost 50 breaches of the City of St. John's Act. This is very much deja vu for the Pettens, otherwise know...

A 55-year-old man was arrested and charged after someone fired a pellet gun at a home in Corner Brook. The RNC say there were no injuries reported, but some damage was caused to the home as a result o...

The first corneal transplant surgeries to take place in Newfoundland and Labrador in decades occurred this week in St. John's and the surgeon who performed them is crediting VOCM Open Line for helping...

The FFAW is raising the alarm over what they say is an "unprecedented gap" in the price of NL snow crab and the price of that same product from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The union says the first Urner...

Premier Andrew Furey and New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt have called a news conference for this afternoon to discuss a memorandum of understanding between the two provinces. Furey and Holt will speak...