Category Archives: Local News

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...

Newfoundland and Labrador nominees took home a single JUNO during this year's awards in Vancouver. Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds won Classical Composition of the Year, becoming the first Inuk artist to...

Today is the last day for the federal carbon tax. Theoretically, that should mean a drop of close to 20 cents per litre in the price of gas tomorrow but it's unclear as to just how that will play out ...

Wages are going up tomorrow for the lowest paid workers in the province. The province announced earlier this year it's moving the minimum wage up by 40 cents to $16.00 an hour. The federal minimum pay...

A Newfoundlander punched his golden ticket to Hollywood on American Idol last night. Twenty-four-year-old Will Carter of St. John's appeared on the show last night, performing his original song 'Dream...