Category Archives: Local News

The House of Assembly is selling off old seal leather chairs that were used in the legislature for 30 years to current and former elected officials-at a cost of $250 each. The chairs were used for mem...

An unusual traffic slowdown on Harvey Road this hour. A city of St. John's garbage truck has crashed through a retaining wall, leaving the cab of the truck hanging over the edge of a concrete wall. Th...

The winners of this year's traffic-calming sweepstakes have been announced by the City of St. John's. Speeding is a serious issue in many areas of the city, but there are only so many resources and sp...

The provincial government is offering a reminder about who is eligible and who is not when it comes to applying for a lottery licence. The province says all charitable lotteries and gaming events in N...

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 ...