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QMJHL Official Impressed With Local Buzz, Early Season Ticket Sales
The chief marketing officer for the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League is scouting the landscape in St. John's this weekend as Newfoundland prepares to re-enter the league, absorbing the franchise ...
Jan 10, 2025 Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League chief marketing officer Karl Jahnke. (VOCM News)
PC Opposition Provides Rationale For Walking Out On MOU Vote
The provincial PC Party has posted a video to social media explaining why they walked out of the vote on the Churchill Falls MOU in the House of Assembly yesterday. All week long the Tories have been ...
Jan 10, 2025
Newfoundlanders Abroad So Far Spared From Devastating L.A. Wildfires
The Canadian government is offering its support to firefighting efforts in California, which is being devastated by fast-moving wildfires. Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says some 250 f...
Jan 10, 2025 Destroyed beachfront properties from the Palisades fire. (Jae C. Hong / AP photo)
Norris Point Home Destroyed by Fire
Despite the heroic efforts of the Norris Point and Rocky Harbour fire departments, a home on Hospital Lane in the west coast community was a total loss. The fire broke out on Wednesday, consuming the ...
Jan 10, 2025
Urgent Care Included at New East End Ambulatory Clinic
The new medical facility going in the old Costco building in the east end of St. John's will also have a facility to treat people whose condition is one step shy of a full blown emergency. It will be ...
Jan 10, 2025 Dr. Greg Browne
Fire Causes Extensive Damage to Shed on Bauline Line
A fire caused damage to a shed and home on Bauline Line early this morning. First responders rushed to the scene just after 2:30 a.m. to find the shed engulfed in flame. Damage to the shed was signifi...
Jan 10, 2025
Planet Fitness Opens Second St. John's Gym on Torbay Road
And then there were two. A major fitness chain has officially opened a second gym on Torbay Road in the east end of St. John's, bookending the city with its original location in the west end. Planet F...
Jan 10, 2025
Police and SAR Crews Scour Bally Haly Following Discovery of Human Remains
RNC and the Rovers Ground Search and Rescue were scouring the area of the Bally Haly Golf Course off Stavanger Drive in the capital city's east end yesterday afternoon following the discovery of human...
Jan 10, 2025
Man Charged with Theft After Cell Phone Snatching
A man has been charged after getting into a spat with another at a home in the capital city's downtown yesterday afternoon. RNC were called after the two men had gotten into an argument that led one m...
Jan 10, 2025
Jones Becomes Fifth of Six Liberal NL MPs Sitting Out Next Election
Long-time Liberal MP Yvonne Jones is the latest to announce she will not seek re-election the next time Canadians go to the polls. That brings to five the number of Liberal MPs in this province who wi...
Jan 10, 2025 Yvonne Jones makes the announcement in Happy Valley-Goose Bay this morning. (FB/Meta)
