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Labrador City homicide victim was shot, police say
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N.L. government selects first community groups for multi-year grant funding
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Town of Lewisporte due for new website
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Highlights from the latest Lewisporte council meeting
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CNA holding workshop series to help develop new strategic plan
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Newfoundland and Labrador accepting applications for new student mentorship program
Public consultations scheduled for new N.L. cultural action plan
A new cultural action plan is being developed for Newfoundland and Labrador and public consultations are being held across the province. “Our government recognizes the significant social and economic contributions of the provincial cultural ...
N.L. government identifies $90K for age-friendly community grants
ST. JOHN’S, NL – A dozen municipalities in the province have been awarded age-friendly community grants. Children, Seniors and Social Development Minister Lisa Dempster announced the recipients today, April 26. The total funding ...
RCMP investigation underway after threat found in Port aux Basques high school
On Wednesday, April 25 administrators at St. James Regional High released a statement notifying the school community a note containing a threat toward the school had been found in a classroom. The statement, which was subsequently shared on social ...
Minister Eddie Joyce identified as subject of complaint filed by fellow MHA, to step down during review
Eddie Joyce, Newfoundland and Labrador's minister of municipal affairs and environment, has been identified as the subject of a misconduct complaint filed with the premier by a Liberal MHA Wednesday. RELATED LINK: Newfoundland and ...
Asthma hospitalizations down for kids in Newfoundland and Labrador
Over the past decade, asthma hospitalization rates for children and youth are down by 54 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Rates of asthma hospitalization for children and ...
Memorial University researcher examines Newfoundlanders and Labradorians’ attitude to ocean
With bleak reports of fish stocks, and underwater footage from around the province’s coast showing a littered ocean floor, one woman’s research is particularly timely. Monica Engel’s “People and Ocean” study of marine ...
Turkey offers to host Royal Newfoundland Regiment statue
There is no formal agreement yet, but the Republic of Turkey has offered, for the first time, a space in Gallipoli National Park for a caribou statue — a commemorative monument to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Speaker Perry Trimper ...
Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister accused of misconduct
A formal allegation of misconduct has been made against a provincial cabinet minister by another Liberal member of the House of Assembly. What comes next is anyone’s guess. No clear process has been laid out so far. The leaders of both ...
Student from Natuashish studying in Corner Brook topples negative perceptions of his home community
Doing a Google search for Natuashish, an unflattering Wikipedia entry is followed by two CBC stories about alcohol abuse, house fires and suicide in the remote Labrador community. For Sonny Gregoire, getting away from the problems that have ...
Tanner Healey sentenced to five years in jail for Reidville home invasion
“The use of a loaded firearm changes everything.” Those are the words Judge Wayne Gorman used in the opening of his written decision on the sentencing of Tanner Healey. The 23-year-old Deer Lake man was sentenced to five years in ...