Category Archives: Local News

It was a warm one in the province yesterday with some records being set. Rodney Barney, a meteorologist at the Gander Weather Office, says Cartwright got up to 14.0 degrees, making it the warmest Dece...

A local business owner is one of many across the country who are scrambling to put announced GST relief in place by tomorrow. Peg Norman of The Travel Bug in downtown St. John's says while she's pleas...

Christmas is less than two weeks away and there are no signs that the postal strike is any closer to being resolved. Rallies in support of striking CUP-W members are taking place today over the lunch ...

Grand Chief Simon Pokue says the MOU between this province and Quebec regarding hydro-electric development is a good deal for everyone, especially the Innu Nation. Premier Andrew Furey ripped up the o...

It wasn't hard for police to trace a vehicle theft to a man who was walking around with the evidence in his pocket. RNC were tipped off about a suspicious person in Conception Bay South yesterday afte...

The Bank of Canada has reduced its key interest rate to 3.25 per cent, which is great news for people with mortgages coming due, or those in the market for a financial product such as a car loan. That...

A search of a home in Carter's Cove in central Newfoundland has resulted in the seizure of dozens of firearms, as well as a quantity of illicit drugs and cash, which resulted in the arrest of a 26-yea...

The Independent MHA for Mount Pearl-Southlands is taking his demands for a review of the Youth Criminal Justice Act to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Last week, in the wake of two violent attacks in ...

Newfoundland and Labrador has signed what's being described an historic agreement with the province of Quebec to "terminate and replace" the 1969 Upper Churchill contract, and develop several other pr...

The Lionel Kelland Hospice, the province's only facility dedicated to end-of-life care, has introduced its first ever Forever in Our Hearts Holiday Tree fundraiser. Loved ones can be honoured with a m...