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Vet Warns of Reduced Specialty Care Starting This Weekend
A local veterinarian is encouraging pet owners to contact their usual providers amid veterinary shortages across the province. The Veterinary Specialty Centre in Mount Pearl recently shared that start...
Sep 27, 2024 (Photo courtesy Veterinary Specialty Centre of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Child Advocate Joins Premier in Expressing Concern Over East End Sexual Violence Case
The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate says they share the concerns of the premier as it relates to a sexual violence case in the east end of St. John's. Yesterday, Premier Andrew Furey directed a...
Sep 27, 2024 Child and Youth Advocate Linda Clemens Spurrell
Wildlife Officers Seek Leads After Trio of Moose Poaching Cases
Wildlife officers are seeking information following three moose poaching incidents in western Newfoundland. Officers recently responded to a complaint about a dead moose about 2 km east of Codroy Pond...
Sep 27, 2024
'Significant' Amount of Disclosure Forwarded in Fatal Refinery Blast
Lawyers for the Come By Chance refinery and one of its contractors were back in Clarenville provincial court yesterday in connection with a fatal explosion at the refinery two years ago. Braya Renewab...
Sep 27, 2024 Braya refinery on Sept. 3, 2022. (VOCM News)
Extra-Curricular Supervision About What's 'Expected' vs 'Required': PCs
A new and rigid interpretation of the rules around adult supervision of extracurricular activities in the K-12 system is preventing some events from going ahead, according to the PC Opposition. Howeve...
Sep 26, 2024 PC MHA Paul Dinn
Costco, CFIA Issue Second Recall This Month Involving Kirkland Yogurt
Costco is recalling another type of yogurt the company sells in Canada. The retailer says Kirkland Signature Probiotic Yogurt, purchased from Sept. 3-19, may contain a type of yeast that could make th...
Sep 26, 2024
Alcohol, Drugs or Combination of Both Suspected in Fatal TCH Crash
Charges against a man accused of killing two young women in a crash on the Trans-Canada Highway have been amended to include impairment by drug, alcohol or a combination of both. Seventy-one-year-old ...
Sep 26, 2024 Haley Keating (left) and Erin Pretty. (Facebook)
Furey Heeds Call For Review of Humby/Escott Sexual Violence Case
Premier Andrew Furey is heeding calls for a review of investigations into an historical sexual violence case in the east end of St. John's. It comes less than 24 hours after PC Leader Tony Wakeham ask...
Sep 26, 2024
Tories Calling For Review of Investigations in Sexual Violence Case
The PC Opposition is calling for an independent review of investigations into allegations of sexual violence in the east end of St. John's. Almost 40 more charges were laid this week against one of th...
Sep 26, 2024 PC Opposition Leader Tony Wakeham (VOCM News/file)
First Walk For Burton Winters Won't Be The Last: Organizers Pledge
Organizers of the first annual Walk for Burton Winters says he's pleased with the turnout for the recent event. Winters, a 14-year-old boy from Makkovik, died tragically in 2012, freezing to death aft...
Sep 26, 2024
