Category Archives: Local News

Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 2.5 per cent nationally to almost $70-Billion in December, boosted by gains at food and beverage retailers and motor vehicle and parts dealers. However, the ad...

The Trans-Labrador Highway is closed this morning as first responders deal with a car crash. Two vehicles collided head-on on the stretch between Wabush and Fermont. There is no word on any injuries, ...

The opening of the new mental health and addictions hospital is on track, according to NLHS boss Pat Parfrey. Attached to the Health Sciences, it will replace the antiquated Waterford Hospital. The ne...

The winter wallop on the Avalon Peninsula delivered a little more than the region had bargained for. Weather Watcher Kelly Butt says a total of 26 cm fell in metro. The snow began in the morning throu...

Two companies and one person have been charged in a fatal workplace accident at a fish farm on the south coast. The incident happened in July 2023 when a man who was working on a barge in St. Alban's ...

Police had to lay down a spike belt in Conception Bay South last night to stop a car which first sped from them in the west end of St. John's. The game of cat and mouse began at about 8:30, but did no...

RCMP in Bay St. George have issued an arrest warrant for a 54-year-old man. Paul Torraville is wanted on charges of assault, assault by choking and four counts of failing to comply with release orders...

That turned into quite the winter wallop with about 20-25 cm of snow on the Avalon Peninsula. It began snowing Friday morning on the southern Avalon but when it spread to metro, it came fast and furio...

A favourite of radio-listeners for years, the VOCM Mad Dash for the Cash, is coming back to the Avalon Mall. Qualifiers are given the opportunity to grab up as much "cash" as possible for the chance t...

Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Fred Hutton says 32 acres of Crown land recently sold to the Crosbie Group Limited is land-locked and was of no use to government. The Opposition raised ques...