Category Archives: Local News

A man who had racked up over $30,000 in fines spent the night in the lockup after being hauled over by metro police last night. RNC stopped the car in the west end just after 9:30 and quickly realized...

A 44-year-old man was arrested and charged this week as part of an RCMP investigation into alleged sexual assault and drug trafficking in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. RCMP were notified on Monday evening b...

Two national pharmacy associations have released a new report targeting the complex issue of drug shortages and what can be done to address the issue. It's called A Path Forward: Collaborative Solutio...

Provincial Liberal leadership candidate John Abbott is calling on Memorial University to restore the Ode to Newfoundland at convocation ceremonies. The controversial decision to drop the Ode two years...

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is in the process of implementing a new health information system. Steve Greene, the Chief Information Officer with NLHS, says the new system will be called C...

A 56-year-old Russian sailor has died after being lost from a cargo ship approximately 650 nautical miles northeast of St. John's. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax received the call of...

The Auditor General is painting a poor picture of how the government handles its Medical Care and Dental Health plans in her latest report. The ultimate conclusion of the report is that the Department...

Sheilagh's Brush usually comes around this time of year, but the weather after St. Patrick's Day was more of a harbinger of spring. Areas on the island not only set temperature records, but the old st...

A proposed change in DFO's northern shrimp assessment model has shifted the species into the healthy zone - a move that the FFAW is applauding. Union President Dwan Street says the change is long over...

NDP Leader Jim Dinn is slamming what he sees as the provincial government's lack of transparency in the recent sale of the old Airport Comfort Inn, now operating as transitional housing as Horizons 10...