Category Archives: Local News

A 46-year-old man died as the result of a single-vehicle accident on the Trans Labrador Highway yesterday afternoon. RCMP were contacted just before 2:30 yesterday afternoon. Members from the Mary's H...

Some 10,000 pounds of food and $5,000 was raised for local food banks during last weekend's Downtown Santa Claus Parade in St. John's. Newfoundland Power had volunteers along the parade route collecti...

Tomorrow is the last day to purchase tickets in the VOCM Cares 50/50 cash draw. The total amount purchased as of mid-day today is nearing $50,000, and growing with half that amount going to the lucky ...

Backhoe bandits have struck another business in the metro region. The Esso gas station near Kenmount Terrace has been closed and barred off since late last week. The RNC have confirmed that they respo...

There's been yet another delay in the trial for a St. John's fire captain accused of sex offences against a minor. Fifty-three-year-old Ron Pomeroy was charged this time last year with sexual assault ...

The Canada Post strike is dragging well into its third week and while both sides remain hopeful that mediated talks can resume, local union president Craig Dyer says the corporation has been unwilling...

Hundreds gathered at the Reid Centre in Mount Pearl last evening to discuss two recent attacks that sent two men to hospital with serious injuries and what communities can do to stay safe. The wife of...

CUPE NL is calling on the provincial government to hire public housing workers instead of spending public funds on private contracts that the union says falls short of housing demand. Jerry Butler, th...

St. John's councilors are swooning over a proposed affordable housing development along Blackmarsh Road. The project would include three, 12-metre-high apartment buildings with a total of 45 units dir...

The speaker of the House of Assembly has issued a statement regarding the process for selecting a candidate for the position of privacy commissioner. Yesterday, the PCs and NDP held a joint news confe...