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Recreational Food Fishery Opens Today Across Province
The recreational food fishery starts today in Newfoundland and Labrador. The summertime pursuit of a few codfish for the table will be open to boaters each Saturday, Sunday and Monday from now until S...
Jun 28, 2025 (Photo via CCFI)
Vehicle Destroyed in Suspicious Fire, RCMP Investigating
RCMP are investigating after someone set fire to a vehicle parked at a home on Keat's Avenue in Grand Falls-Windsor earlier this week. RCMP were called just before 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday. The occupants ...
Jun 28, 2025
Concerns for Missing 57-Year-Old Man in Pouch Cove
Searchers, combing land and water, are trying to find a man who was last seen in the area of Pouch Cove. Paul Connors, who is from that town, was wearing overalls, a red and black fleece jacket and ru...
Jun 28, 2025 Paul Connors is missing from Pouch Cove.
Man Arrested for Theft in Downtown St. John's
Metro police caught up with a man after people at a residence in downtown St. John's called regarding a theft. The suspect didn't make it easy for officers as they found him at a different location. T...
Jun 28, 2025
Angler in Medical Distress Rescued by Exploits Search and Rescue
Exploits Search and Rescue have rescued a man who suffered a medical emergency while out angling. RCMP in Grand Falls-Windsor were contacted around 7:00 p.m. Thursday about a fisherman on the Exploits...
Jun 27, 2025 An ambulance waits for a angler suffered a medical emergency on the Exploits River (via Exploits Search and Rescue on Facebook)
Pynn Gets Time Served For HMP Drug Running; Free Man For First Time
For the first time in 25 years, Philip Pynn is a fully free man after a sentence of time served for smuggling drugs into Her Majesty's Penitentiary. Pynn's 2014 trial and manslaughter conviction made ...
Jun 27, 2025 Legal Aid defence lawyer Mark Gruchy with his client, Philip Pynn on Friday, June 27, 2025. (VOCM News)
U.S. President 'Terminating All Discussions on Trade with Canada'
U.S. President Donald Trump has cut off trade talks with Canada, calling Ottawa's digital services tax a "blatant attack" on the United States. Trump made the comments in a post to his Truth Social pl...
Jun 27, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington (C-SPAN)
Province Releases More Detail on Teachers Being Added to the System
The provincial government has revealed more details about how some 400 new educators will be added to the K-12 system by the upcoming school year. Government set aside $20-million in the 2025 budget f...
Jun 27, 2025
Nain Man Arrested in Connection with Break-in and Theft from Nain Airport
RCMP have arrested a Nain man wanted on charges related to a break, entry and theft at the airport in Nain. Police say a number of items were stolen and property was damaged. Thirty-eight-year-old Her...
Jun 27, 2025 Nain airport (Photo via Government of Canada)
More Foot Patrols in Capital City's Downtown This Summer
Expect to see more uniformed security on the streets in the capital city's downtown again this summer - part of a collaboration among the RNC, Downtown St. John's, and the Downtown Security Council th...
Jun 27, 2025 Don-E Coady speaks with reporters flanked by Gaylynne Gulliver of Downtown St. John's and RNC Constable James Cadigan (VOCM News)
