Category Archives: Local News

RNC officers had their work cut out for them trying to arrest a man who broke into a home in Conception Bay South last night. Police were called around 8:30 p.m. after the man, who was known to the re...

The provincial government has received five brand new snowplows that will replace older ones in the provincial fleet, and there are many more on the way. $25-million per year for the next four years w...

The FFAW is calling for transparency and accountability in the operation of the Fish Harvesters Resource Centre - a non-profit organization that provides dockside monitoring services to fish harvester...

A local optometrist says more children are being diagnosed as nearsighted, and it is happening at younger ages. A paper in the British Journal of Ophthalmology recently concluded that one-third of chi...

It should come as no surprise to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that food prices here are higher than many other jurisdictions across the country. Food has to be trucked in by crossing the Gulf, or ...

The St. John's man who murdered Catherine Carroll in 1991 but allowed her son, Greg Parsons, to go to prison for it, has had his day parole revoked -- again. In its decision that was made on Christmas...

RNC have arrested a man wanted on a number of outstanding charges. Police say 38-year-old Matthew Scott of CBS was arrested on the weekend. He is accused of driving a conveyance while prohibited, dang...

Former premier Danny Williams is urging the current government to proceed "with the greatest vigilance and due diligence in any final agreement" with Quebec on hydro development - particularly in ligh...

The Auditor General has released her monitoring report on previous audit recommendations that have yet to be acted upon by government departments and agencies. Denise Hanrahan says her monitoring repo...

A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged after police were notified of suspicious activity in and around the Newfoundland Power substation in Mobile on the weekend. Ferryland RCMP were contacte...