Category Archives: Local News

A man was taken to hospital this morning after being struck by a vehicle at Kenmount Road and the Team Gushue Highway near the Capital Hotel. The incident occurred just after 8:00 this morning. RNC sa...

An SUV that should never have been on the road was pulled over and seized by police in Burgeo late last week. RCMP noticed the heavily damaged vehicle on Thursday and stopped the 70-year-old driver wh...

The mother of a young man who was badly beaten in a bloody attack in the Cowan Heights area of St. John's two weeks ago is concerned that only three people have been charged. Kayla Wiseman, whose 19-y...

Statistics Canada says higher gas prices mainly driven by the war in Iran pushed the annual rate of inflation up to 2.8 per cent in April compared with 2.4 per cent in March. The cost of living also w...

Work to extend the life of Goodyear's Dam on the Exploits River about 4 km upstream from the Grand Falls Generating Station has been given the environmental green light. The dam, which was built in 19...

There's been a lot of discussion in recent years about an increase in violent crime, but the NDP is urging a different approach than the traditional calls for greater incarceration rates and "jail, no...

About a third of the eligible population of Newfoundland and Labrador has availed of the shingles vaccine for older men and women since the rollout of the program close to a year ago. The virus is pai...

The whale rescue season is off to an early start with a humpback freed from a herring net in Happy Adventure last week. Wayne Ledwell of the Whale Release and Strandings group says the animal had bust...

Federal officials will be watching for the illegal purchase and sale of northern cod once the food fishery opens on the Canada Day weekend. Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson announced last we...

A food supply and price analyst says governments need to talk to suppliers and producers to find out why grocery items that are governed by supply management are rising excessively in price. Sylvain C...