Category Archives: Local News

Rural parts of the province are perhaps hardest hit by the current postal strike. Municipalities NL says rural regions don't always have access to the same variety of delivery options and must rely on...

A St. John's man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the random stabbing death of a Toronto teenager. Twenty-three-year-old Jordan O'Brien-Tobin was originally charged with first-degree murd...

A new Canadian Mental Health Association report on the state of mental health in the country shows that Newfoundland and Labrador struggles to retain its mental health workforce. Despite that, indicat...

RNC are searching for a wanted Torbay man. Police say 41-year-old David Tapper is wanted for failing to comply with court orders in connection with an investigation launched in August after a fraud re...

Deer Lake RCMP have concluded a police operation in the Nicholsville Road area of the town. Police officers converged on the area earlier this afternoon, but have now cleared the scene and there is no...

The Opposition is calling for an inquiry into the apparent failure of the systems in place to protect young people from two alleged sexual predators. Bruce Escott and Tony Humby are facing dozens of c...

The criminal case against an Ontario man blamed for the deaths of almost two dozen dogs has been postponed until the new year. Fifty-two-year-old Toby Cadotte faces 19 charges of wilfully causing or p...

A new RCMP report released this month shows that 88 per cent of all missing persons cases in Canada involve either runaways, or involved someone who went missing once or more over the seven-year perio...

Career criminal Phillip Pynn, accused of smuggling drugs into Her Majesty's Penitentiary, is seeking bail again. Pynn, now 39, was charged last year with three counts of drug trafficking, but it was f...

The NDP is asking questions of the education department about parents at a school in Labrador City, the party says, who were asked to start paying fees to help fund supplies. Labrador West MHA Jordan ...