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Search For Woman Missing Off Cape Spear Now a Recovery Mission
The search for a woman swept into the ocean at Cape Spear on Wednesday has shifted to a recovery mission. A 911 call came in around 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon and when emergency responders arrived the...
Jan 16, 2025 (VOCM file photo)
PUB Rejects NF Power Rate Increase; Ordered Back to Drawing Board
The Public Utilities Board has rejected Newfoundland Power's recent application for a 10.6 per cent rate increase. In its decision filed today, the board directed Newfoundland Power to go back to the ...
Jan 16, 2025
Fire Destroys Historic Grenfell Mission Building, Boys and Girls Club, in St. Anthony
No one was injured but residents of St. Anthony are in shock following the loss of the local Boys and Girls Club. Fire broke out in the Annex, one of the original Grenfell Mission buildings, at about ...
Jan 16, 2025 Photo courtesy Ashley Rice. (FB/Meta)
Minister 'Shocked, Gob-smacked' by Fed Reduction of Immigration Numbers
The provincial government is reeling after being informed by the federal government that NL's annual immigration allocation has been capped at 1,525 for the next three years. Last year the province's ...
Jan 16, 2025 Newcomers at St. John's City Hall. (File photo)
Gibbons Remembered For Hockey Legendry, Community Contributions
A legendary St. John's hockey player and community builder who skated in the old World Hockey Association has passed away. Brian Gibbons, a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame,...
Jan 16, 2025
Approval For 10-Storey Apartment Building into the Home Stretch
A new 10-storey apartment building planned for the east end of St. John's is one step closer to the finish line. It's pegged for New Cove Road on the site of the former YMCA and Max Athletics building...
Jan 16, 2025 (Design submitted by KMK Capital)
RNU Wants Nursing Travel Locum Program Expanded Province-Wide
The RNU is urging the provincial government to roll out a province-wide nursing travel locum program to ensure that nurse practitioners and registered nurses are getting equitable pay for the work the...
Jan 16, 2025 Registered Nurses Union President Yvette Coffey
New Mews Centre Finally Set to Open -- Sometime Soon
The long-awaited opening of the brand new Mews Centre is drawing near-finally. The facility is in the commissioning phase and ward councillor Greg Noseworthy was among a group of city councillors who ...
Jan 16, 2025 The new Mews Centre is scheduled to open on September 15, 2025
RCMP Conducting Internal Review After Equipment Stolen from Unmarked Vehicle
RCMP-issued body armour, two sets of handcuffs and a canister of pepper spray, recovered from a home on St. Teresa's Court off Mundy Pond Road during an RNC operation on Saturday morning, had been rep...
Jan 16, 2025
Man Charged for Causing Damage at Hospital
A 26-year-old man spent some time in the lockup after getting up to no good at a hospital in the capital city. Police were called around 1:30 yesterday afternoon after he was caught damaging property ...
Jan 16, 2025
