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Hockey Community Mourns the Loss of 16-Year-Old J.D. Trainor
The province's hockey community is mourning the passing of a young hockey player who lost his battle with cancer this week. J.D. Trainor of Paradise was just 16 years old. The president of Hockey NL, ...
Jan 18, 2025 Photo via Facebook
Business Owner Calls for Water Street Pedestrian Mall to Shift to Weekends
The owner of a well-established men's clothing store downtown St. John's would like to see the pedestrian mall on Water Street become a weekend thing. As it stands, four blocks of Water Street are bar...
Jan 18, 2025 The downtown pedestrian mall, St. John's
Financial Struggles Hit NL Folk Arts Society, Prompting Temporary Layoffs
The NL Folk Arts Society is navigating some "rough waters" - experiencing what it calls a "cash flow crunch" resulting in the temporary layoff of a number of employees. Executive Director Diana Daly t...
Jan 18, 2025 Photo via Facebook
Failed Traffic Stop Leads to Pursuit and Arrest For Drug Possession
RCMP arrested a man who failed to pull over for police in Carbonear overnight. The Mounties attempted to stop the vehicle on Pondside Road shortly after midnight, but the driver fled and later jumped ...
Jan 17, 2025
Defence Wants Results of DNA Testing Prior to Pleas in Fatal Hit-and-Run
Police have executed a warrant for DNA from a man charged with impaired driving following a fatal hit-and-run in St. John's last Regatta Day. The lawyer for 37-year-old Mark Duke of Fox Harbour says h...
Jan 17, 2025 (VOCM News/file)
Newfoundland Power to Re-evaluate Costs After PUB Rejects Rate Hike Proposal
Newfoundland Power has acknowledged receipt of the PUB's decision on the utility's General Rate Application. The Board rejected Newfoundland Power's request for a 10.6 per cent rate increase, asking i...
Jan 17, 2025
Federal Immigration Reductions 'Wake-up Call' For Province: NLMA
The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association says the federal government's decision to slash this province's economic immigration spaces will pose a significant challenge to the province's effort...
Jan 17, 2025
Preliminary Inquiry Set For Trio in Bay Roberts Murder Case
Dates have now been set for the preliminary inquiry in a Bay Roberts first-degree murder case. Three people are charged with planning and killing a 42-year-old man from Spaniard's Bay. Forty-one-year-...
Jan 17, 2025 Harbour Grace Provincial Court
Bust at St. John's Home Finds Drugs, Cash, 3D-Printed Handgun
The search and seizure of items from a St. John's home this week netted a large quantity of drugs, loaded firearms and a 3D-printed handgun. Police descended on the home on Channing Place on Tuesday a...
Jan 17, 2025 Photo via RCMP
IBEW Local 1620 Disapproves of Unsanctioned Protests Outside Newfoundland Power
IBEW Local 1620 says it does not condone the decision by some members to demonstrate outside Newfoundland Power. The union says it entered negotiations for its craft membership in September of 2022, a...
Jan 17, 2025
