Category Archives: Local News

The Canadian consumer carbon tax will be removed as of midnight tonight, and that will result in a dip at the pumps right across the province. The removal of the controversial tax was one of the main ...

Premier Andrew Furey took time Monday morning to meet with the family of the late John Murphy, a broadcasting pioneer who led the VOCM Radio Network for over 25 years. Murphy passed away earlier this ...

NAPE has voted in favour of ending all union-sponsored travel to the United States for the foreseeable future. President Jerry Earle says the decision comes following "persistent threats" by US Presid...

Some parents in the catchment zone for a new K-7 school are dismayed that there is still no sign of any activity - no site work, and no tender call. The facility, to be located in Kenmount Terrace, is...

Happy anniversary, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was on this day, just before midnight March 31, 1949, that Newfoundland joined Canada as the country's tenth and newest province. At the time, the refe...

Jordyn Piercey scored with 0.2 seconds left in the tied third period as Team Gill took the league title in the inaugural season of the Womens Junior A Hockey League (WJAHL). Piercey scored five of the...

Schools in Newfoundland and Labrador have destroyed thousands of books purchased a couple of years ago because they contain numerous inaccuracies about Indigenous history and culture. A political lead...

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services says they do not have the capacity to run two cardiac cath labs in the province. Some people on the west coast are complaining that, despite having the new re...

A Portugal Cove resident says more needs to be done to slow down traffic on Tuckers Hill after a car was totalled early Sunday morning. Peter Newman says he heard a loud thump just after 8 a.m. yester...

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can expect to get regular monthly updates on overdose deaths in the not-too-distant future. The scourge of drug toxicity first came to light in tragic fashion during t...