Category Archives: Local News

As if we haven't had enough of them this winter, Mother Nature is preparing to drop another hit to the island. Environment Canada has issued an alert about a storm moving into eastern Newfoundland. Th...

NL Pride says the wake of the "national tragedy" that was the shooting deaths in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., last week is a time for people to come together, not sow greater division and fear. Eddy St. Coeur...

The Finance Minister says his government has given "no thought" to the possibility of divesting itself of the NL Liquor Corporation. Moya Greene's 'Big Reset' report, released in 2021, made a number o...

There will be a presentation and launch of a website for a project aiming to collect data on war brides - specifically from WW1. Two organizations - the Trail of the Caribou research group and the her...

Memorial University is holding its head high these days after what it sees as a positive ranking by an influential international publication, Time Magazine. And university officials say the news certa...

A new report shows that 44 per cent of restaurants in Canada are making very little profit or are just breaking even as we head into 2026 on this, one of their busiest weekends of the year. Janick Cor...

A non-profit community counselling agency is expanding its services thanks to a major donation from the Northpine Foundation. The Ruah Counselling Centre offers counselling services for individuals, c...

The St. John's International Women's Film Festival has announced a suite of industry development programs taking place over the next few weeks. The events include a virtual panel, one-on-one script co...

A fire at an apartment building in the centre city area of St. John's yesterday has displaced a handful of people. The blaze broke out in a second floor apartment on Keane Place off Freshwater Road ar...

People who live in the Indian Meal Line area of Torbay say there has been a string of break and entries over the past while, something which they have never been beset with until recently. One residen...