Category Archives: Local News

There's another dispute in the fishery-this time with capelin. Harvesters and processors are about 15 cents per pound apart as the Fish Price Setting Panel chose the Association of Seafood Producers' ...

A record high temperature was set in the St. John's metro region today. As of 3 p.m., the mercury had reached 29 C at St. John's International Airport, several ticks above the previous high of 25.6 C ...

The second of two men charged with two violent and random home invasions in St. John's has been sentenced to six-and-half years in prison. Thirty-four-year-old Jonathon Hurley and 33-year-old Justin H...

The evacuation of hundreds of residents from Churchill Falls has left the SPCA in Happy Valley-Goose Bay seeking solutions to host the many pets left homeless. Residents started to leave Churchill Fal...

Iconic Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has died. He was 88. Sutherland was born in New Brunswick and had a respected stage career before coming to prominence as a film actor with roles in the Dirty D...

Government officials have imposed a province-wide ban on open fires in the wake of high temperatures and winds -- and forest fires burning in Labrador. Those fires have forced the evacuation of Church...

The NLTA says a meeting is scheduled for next week to look at the issue of violence in schools over the last academic year. In March, President Trent Langdon sounded the alarm in March after access to...

All fuel products cost more today. Gas went up by 1.3 cents, while diesel jumped by 4.9 cents on the island and 4.5 cents per litre in Labrador West. Furnace oil is up by 4.19 cents. Stove oil on the ...

A teenager was taken to hospital with serious injuries after falling an estimated 30 feet while rock climbing in Torbay. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says first responders were called to the ar...

The sentencing hearing for Kirk Keeping is set for today in Grand Falls-Windsor Supreme Court. Forty-year-old Keeping has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfri...