Category Archives: Local News

A 63-year-old man from Isle aux Morts was arrested and charged following a violent altercation in Benoit's Cove. Police were called Sunday afternoon as the result of a reported disturbance on Main Str...

A Portugal Cove-St. Philip's councillor is not taking his recent suspension lying down. Darryl Harding was suspended in early October after two independent reports done for the town concluded his beha...

A man from Conception Bay South has been awarded the Governor General's Medal of Bravery for a daring rescue in Point Verde nearly three years ago. David Coffey sprung into action on November 25, 2021...

The province's Seniors Advocate has written to the Department of Health and NL Health Services seeking an immediate meeting on the government's decision to double up the occupancy of 15 long-term care...

The RCMP are looking for the public's help in identifying a man who caused damage to the Canadian Tire Gas Bar on Manitoba Drive in Clarenville. Surveillance video picked up images of a man throwing j...

Auditor General Denise Hanrahan has released a scathing report into the provincial government's administration of Crown lands. Hanrahan has "serious concerns" with the Department of Fisheries, Forestr...

An early surge in respiratory illness, including pneumonia, is what prompted the health authority to introduce mandatory masking in all health care settings effective today. Clinical Chief of Infectio...

First the Premier's state of the Province address - presented today to the St. John's Board of Trade - next comes the province's fall fiscal update. Finance Minister Siobhan Coady will provide an upda...

A number of vet clinics have had to cut their hours back or reduce services due to difficulties with staffing, and the situation could get worse before it gets better. Local vet Dr. Maggie Brown-Bury ...

Halloween candy is the latest grocery item to suffer from shrinkflation. Sylvian Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University's Agri-Food and Analytics Lab says candy has gotten smaller and there ...