Category Archives: Local News

The province's health authority is taking steps to standardize the use of agency nurses in the province, but the approach is not sitting well with the province's largest public sector union. The RNU h...

More child pornography charges have been laid against a disbarred St. John's lawyer. Fifty-four-year-old Michael Drover was struck from the Roll of Barristers and stripped of all practicing privileges...

Metrobus says everyone deserves to feel safe on city buses and is introducing security and a new guide for passenger conduct due to increasingly disruptive and threatening behaviour. The number of peo...

A teenager, originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 65-year-old woman last year has had the charge against him upgraded to first-degree murder. The charge against the boy, who w...

A former member of the House of Assembly has passed away. Kevin Parsons, a former mayor of Flatrock, represented Cape St. Francis for three terms. He first went to the legislature in a by-election und...

Voting has begun in a by-election in metro. Advance polls in Waterford Valley opened at 8 a.m. and will remain open until 8 p.m. The candidate field consists of Nicole Boland of the NDP, Jamie Korab o...

RCMP in Happy Valley-Goose Bay have identified a suspect in a number of recent crimes in the community. Police were kept on the hop on Tuesday, starting with a call about a break-in at the former Padd...

NDP Leader Jim Dinn says he's concerned with what he's not hearing from Premier Andrew Furey given the bleak outlook for The Telegram newspaper and its printing press. The Telegram is part of the Post...

A 34-year-old man is facing a long list of charges following a dramatic sequence of events in Labrador. RCMP in Sheshatshiu attempted to pull a vehicle over in North West River on Saturday, but the ve...

A local singer-songwriter says getting the opportunity to open for country megastar Shania Twain this weekend is a dream come true. Country artist Mallory Johnson is one of the opening acts on Friday ...