Newfoundland & Labrador News

ST. JOHN'S — An advocate in central Newfoundland says the LGBTQ+ community is standing tall despite recent vandalism appearing to target a rainbow crosswalk and Pride flag.

ST. JOHN'S — Police say someone has vandalized a Pride crosswalk in the rural Newfoundland community of Botwood.

ST. JOHN'S — Students and staff at Newfoundland and Labrador's only university have offered the administration suggestions to reduce costs, increase revenue, and boost morale as the school looks to cut millions of dollars in spending.

ST. JOHN'S — Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Andrew Furey has stepped down from his seat in the legislature.

ST. JOHN'S — Despite a lagging market for green hydrogen, the Newfoundland and Labrador government says it still plans to collect royalties from the province's nascent renewable energy industry.

ST. JOHN'S — Police in Newfoundland and Labrador say they are investigating a collision in St. John's that left a 40-year-old man dead. They say officers responded to reports of a "serious" collision on Pitts Memorial Drive, just East of Robert E.

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city will no longer name new streets and city buildings after individual people. Councillors with the City of St. John's, N.L., voted unanimously to accept the new policy during a meeting last week.

ST. JOHN'S — About 700 people who were forced to flee their homes in central Newfoundland because of a wildfire were cleared to go home on Friday. The decision to lift the evacuation order for Badger, N.L.

ST. JOHN'S — Scientists say they are surprised and “puzzled” by the federal fisheries minister’s decision Wednesday to more than double the catch in this year’s northern cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador.

ST. JOHN'S — Residents of a rural Newfoundland town were ordered out of their homes on Wednesday as an out-of-control wildfire burned a few kilometres away. Premier John Hogan said he issued the evacuation order for Badger, N.L.