Category Archives: Local News

The Lewisporte Fire Department had to call in an excavator to help put out an electric vehicle fire last week. Battalion Chief Rob Fudge says they received the call earlier this month after an electri...

The Independent MHA for Humber- Bay of Islands has written Health Minister John Hogan with his continued concerns about overcrowding in the emergency department at Western Memorial Regional Hospital. ...

The capital city is paving the shoulder of the Main Road in the Goulds to make walking and cycling along the long stretch of busy road safer. Money has been set aside in the city's capital budget that...

Tributes are coming in for a former Burin Peninsula MHA. Mary Hodder, who represented the district of Burin-Placentia West from 1996 to 2003, passed away yesterday. She was 79. Hodder was the former D...

The Minister of Health is pleased with the appointment of Dr. Pat Parfrey as CEO of NL Health Services. Parfrey is one of the architects of the NL Health Accord and was the former Deputy Minister of H...

Two local business owners are declaring victory after a judge threw out the capital city's attempt to get a formal definition of the word "occupancy." The matter stemmed from a previous battle over Iv...

Equinor says significant progress has been made in reshaping the Bay du Nord project with a focus on costs and inflationary impacts. The company shocked the local oil and gas sector when it announced ...

A 39-year-old man found himself in trouble with the law after dialing 911 numerous times for no real reason. The excessive, frivolous calls began coming in shortly after 11:30 last night from a home i...

St. John's City Hall will be lit in yellow today to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by...

Metro police ended up capturing a woman on their wanted list after being called to a theft in Mount Pearl yesterday. RNC showed up at the business just before 4 p.m. and recognized the 41-year-old who...