Category Archives: Local News

Rising water levels on the mighty Exploits River has caused town officials in Badger to set up a River Watch to keep an eye on floodwaters. Mayor Dennis Butt says four households had to be evacuated o...

A serial sex offender accused of disturbing acts at Her Majesty's Penitentiary is back before the courts for a bail hearing. Thirty-three-year-old Stephen Hopkins was due in provincial court yesterday...

A blast of old man winter will get the weekend off to a messy start for parts of eastern Newfoundland. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for St. John's and a winter storm warni...

A 36-year-old man has been charged after being arrested following an overnight break-in this week in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. RCMP were contacted after an alarm was set off at a local business around 3...

A local lawyer has filed a class action lawsuit with the Supreme Court on behalf of passengers of a commercial flight that made a hard landing at Halifax in late December after part of the landing gea...

It costs more to fill up on diesel and home heating fuels this morning. Diesel on the island is up nearly 3 cents per litre. Furnace oil increases by 2 and a half cents. There's virtually no change to...

A new addiction treatment facility scheduled to open on the Avalon Peninsula later this year. The Vida Nova Recovery Centre, located on Southwest Pond, Salmonier Line, will open in June of this year. ...

Four items celebrating NunatuKavut's Inuit cultural links have been added to a display at The Rooms. The NCC says the expansion of the collection at The Rooms represents an "important step in recogniz...

A retired pediatrician has written a new book highlighting the public health initiatives that dramatically reduced child mortality in Newfoundland and Labrador over the last century. Before Confederat...

Emergency responders remain on the scene of a collision in Mount Pearl that occurred over the lunch hour. The RNC were first called to the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Park avenue just befo...