Category Archives: Local News

Police were looking for an impaired driver but instead they caught a person who owed a small fortune in fines. RNC were scouring the east end of St. john's after calls of a possible impaired driver we...

Nearly all fuels on the island cost more this morning. Gasoline is up by 4.1 cents per litre, diesel is up by about 3 cents and furnace oil 2 1/2 cents. There was a slight drop in the price of propane...

A Newfoundland-based trucking company says a good place to start reducing trade barriers within Canada would be his industry where rules and regulations are all over the place. Chris Howllett, the own...

A man and a woman in Labrador are facing drug trafficking charges after being pulled over in Sheshatshiu last week. Forty-two-year-old Nachelle Nuna and 35-year-old Brent Diamond were pulled over on M...

A former president of the NLTA is using his family's previous struggle to fuel his efforts in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Visionaries of the Year campaign. The campaign spans ten weeks, and is...

A coffee shop in Gander received a surprise donation earlier this week from an American man who wanted to thank people in the town for their kindness during the 9/11 Terrorist attacks. Jumping Bean Co...

Provincial Liberal leadership candidate John Abbott has announced a plan to introduce a targeted basic income for seniors aged 65 and older. Abbott says seniors are especially vulnerable to the high c...

The Registered Nurses Union and the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions want to see greater nurse-to-patient ratios in response to what they say are rising rates of violence in hospitals. There has b...

A local tech company is looking to unlock the potential of 3D printing for the health care sector. PolyUnity, which is based in St. John's, was founded in 2018. They are using 3D printing to create me...

A well-known metro area businessman is on the road to recovery after undergoing grueling treatment for an aggressive, and rare, form of cancer. "The doctors had said to me, basically...that they were ...