Category Archives: Local News

A 56-year-old Russian sailor has died after being lost from a cargo ship approximately 650 nautical miles northeast of St. John's. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax received the call of...

The Auditor General is painting a poor picture of how the government handles its Medical Care and Dental Health plans in her latest report. The ultimate conclusion of the report is that the Department...

Sheilagh's Brush usually comes around this time of year, but the weather after St. Patrick's Day was more of a harbinger of spring. Areas on the island not only set temperature records, but the old st...

A proposed change in DFO's northern shrimp assessment model has shifted the species into the healthy zone - a move that the FFAW is applauding. Union President Dwan Street says the change is long over...

NDP Leader Jim Dinn is slamming what he sees as the provincial government's lack of transparency in the recent sale of the old Airport Comfort Inn, now operating as transitional housing as Horizons 10...

The provincial government says it has ordered the company, which owns a transport truck which overturned on the Burin Peninsula Highway last month, to hire a registered site professional to remediate ...

Provincial fisheries minister Gerry Byrne says Newfoundland and Labrador still has a lot of friends in the United States despite an escalating trade war between the two nations. Gerry Byrne is just ba...

Although avian flu was recently detected in a domestic poultry flock in CBS, the outbreak that ravaged wild seabird populations off the coast of Newfoundland a couple of years ago appears to have run ...

Some outdoor equipment could be the first to see price increases as the trade war continues between the U.S. and Canada. Jonathan Earle of The Outfitters in downtown St. John's, says from among his in...

A truck driver is calling for 24-hour road maintenance after his rig jackknifed on the Trans Canada Monday morning in extremely slippery conditions. John Oliver says black ice on the Trans-Canada High...