Category Archives: Local News

The Victoria Volunteer Fire Department is back up to full complement after a meeting on Friday with Municipal Affairs Minister Paul Pike and Mayor Barry Dooley. Twenty of the fire department's 24 memb...

A man who had been breaking into cars in broad daylight has been arrested. The incidents happened on Empire Avenue in St. John's just after 2:00 in the afternoon. When RNC officers moved in to nab the...

A man who had no shoes and no shirt will get service at the lockup in St. John's today. The RNC first started getting calls about the man who smelled of alcohol just after 1 a.m.. When the officer app...

The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association has launched a new campaign against a federally-proposed National Marine Conservation Area along the province's south coast. If implemented, the assoc...

A scathing report from the Auditor General has uncovered significant overspending on housing for agency nurses, with some costs exceeding five times the going rate. The report found 48 nights were cha...

RNC are once again making a public plea to call in criminal or concerning behaviour when and where it happens. Constable James Cadigan says all too often police are contacted hours or even days after ...

Provincial NDP leader Jim Dinn says the issues surrounding internal medicine at St. Clare's hospital in St. John's stem from a lack of action on the social determinants of health. Dinn received a lett...

A portion of the Robert E Howlett Memorial Highway from Ruby Line to Doyle's Road is closed today from now until 9:00 p.m. to allow crews to reinstall the Cochrane Pond Bridge. A detour is in place th...

The first day of the recreational cod fishery could have turned ugly, but two people who were in a boat which overturned in Conception Bay have been rescued. The incident unfolded this morning with th...

The province's Seniors' Advocate, Susan Walsh, says recent government affordability measures fail to help seniors living in poverty. While the government announced new benefits for those on income sup...