Category Archives: Local News

There's been another polar bear sighting in the province, this time in Coachman's Cove on the Baie Verte Peninsula. Last week a polar bear was spotted near West Saint Modeste in the Labrador Straits. ...

The NDP is calling on the province to reinstate waterbomber service in part of Labrador ahead of tomorrow's budget. Last summer two major wildfires threatened two Labrador communities, Churchill Falls...

A man from Trinity in Bonavista North made his first court appearance this morning, blamed for a crash last year that killed two people. The charges against 53-year-old Roger Hunt were just laid in Fe...

The Coalition of Persons with Disabilities is among a group of community-based organizations seeking greater core funding from the province-and is calling for changes to the way in which core funding ...

Former NHLer and Newfoundland hockey legend Alex Faulkner has passed away, just a few months after his brother George. The Bishop's Falls native passed away yesterday at the age of 88. Faulkner starte...

The St. John's Board of Trade says there is a "unanimous desire" to push the removal of interprovincial trade barriers forward in Atlantic Canada. The organization, as part of the Atlantic Canada Capi...

For the first time ever, schools from Labrador will have the chance to compete in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial High School Hockey Tournament. Thirty-two teams will compete in this year's e...

The province's finance minister says her department has done what it can to mitigate the economic turmoil created by U.S. President Donald Trump and the stock market freefall in the wake of his sweepi...

A consultation process is now open on Memorial University's new draft Indigenous verification policy. The policy is being brought in to address questions and concerns raised at academic institutions a...

Health officials gave media one last walk-though at the new Mental Health and Addictions Centre yesterday before the big move-in later this week. The transfer of patients, staff and equipment from the...