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'Call it Femicide,' Local Violence Prevention Group Pleased with Pending Changes to Criminal Code
The executive director of Violence Prevention Avalon East says the introduction of federal legislation to add the term "femicide" to the Criminal Code is a necessary step in addressing the issue. The ...
Mar 25, 2026 The red dress has come to symbolize the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women
Premier's Office Receptive to Travel Team Proposal says RNU
The Registered Nurses Union is getting positive feedback from the Premier's Office on its proposal to move away from using private agency nurses to fill gaps in rural areas. President Yvette Coffey sa...
Mar 25, 2026 RNU President Yvette Coffey (Facebook)
ASP Asking Government to Explain Policy Allowing Product to be Shipped Out of Province for Processing
It's looking more and more like the players in the crab fishery, a $2-billion sector of the industry, are going to be butting heads instead of working together. The Association of Seafood Producers is...
Mar 25, 2026 Crab processing at the Quinlan plant in Bay de Verde
Core Health Staffing Review Progressing as Planned says Government
The provincial government's core staffing review for the health care system is progressing "as planned" according to the department of health. It was first announced that government was undertaking th...
Mar 25, 2026
Man Charged With Uttering Threats in Smith's Harbour
A 29-year-old man from Smith's Harbour in Green Bay is facing charges following an incident Monday morning. Springdale RCMP responded to a report of a man threatening another person and arrested the s...
Mar 25, 2026
Difficult Decisions to be Made as MUNSU Navigates Tough Financial Situation
Memorial University's Students' Union will gather April 1 to discuss the possibility of cutting funding to MUN's campus radio station - CHMR. The station, which receives most of its funding through MU...
Mar 25, 2026 Nathan Gillingham of MUNSU
Only 3 Per Cent of RCMP Applications Processed Within Timing Target: Federal AG
The federal Auditor General has found that RCMP vacancy rates were greater than the force's critical threshold in 9 of 10 provinces in the country and that recruitment efforts were hampered by slow ap...
Mar 25, 2026 Federal Auditor General Karen Hogan (CPAC)
Adjudication Tribunals Find Three Nurses Guilty in Separate Incidents
The College of Registered Nurses has released the results of recent Adjudication Tribunals involving three members found guilty of conduct deserving of sanction. The College was contacted by NL Health...
Mar 25, 2026
Opposition Calls on Government to Address Immigration Deficits Highlighted by Federal AG
The Opposition is calling on the provincial government to address some of the immigration deficits affecting Newfoundland and Labrador recently raised by federal Auditor General Karen Hogan. The AG th...
Mar 25, 2026 (VOCM News)
Drugs and Weapons Seized from Car Stopped Near Salmonier Line
A man has a date with the courts on Friday after RCMP seized drugs and weapons from a vehicle on the TCH between Salmonier Line and the Holyrood access road earlier this week. Officers saw a vehicle p...
Mar 25, 2026
