Category Archives: Local News

Tomorrow marks the deadline for people who use furnace and stove oil to heat their homes to apply for the 2024 home heating supplement. Residents can apply online, and include copies of invoices showi...

A 42-year-old man is facing charges after an altercation with a cab driver in Stephenville on Friday. RCMP were called by a local cab company around 9:30 Friday evening after one of their drivers was ...

Mount Pearl Mayor Dave Aker has suggested that the provincial government consider drafting a set of standards for those who own and operate heavy machinery. Aker made the suggestion after the latest i...

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...