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11 months ago

Thousands briefly left in the dark Tuesday evening

Many Newfoundland Power customers experienced a brief power outage on Tuesday night. Newfoundland Hydro said that a transmission line trip caused a brief outage for pockets of customers on the island.NL Power said what happened is known as an underfrequency load shed – intentionally designed to take customers offline in order to balance frequency and […]

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11 months ago

Channel-Port aux Basques RCMP investigate break, enter and theft from vacation property

Channel-Port aux Basques RCMP is appealing to the public for help, as it investigates a break and enter committed on Oct. 7 at a vacation property in Port aux Basques.Just before 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, police responded to a report of a break, enter and theft from a short-term rental property on Grand Bay Road […]

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11 months ago

Over 15,000 future voters participating in the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election

Nearly 150 schools have registered to participate in the Student Vote program for the 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election, bringing democracy to life in the classrooms across all 40 electoral districts. In the lead-up to the Oct. 14 provincial election, as many as 15,000 elementary, intermediate and high school students are expected to cast Student Vote […]

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11 months ago

Closing arguments set in murder trial

Lawyers are expected to have their final say to the jury tomorrow in the second-degree murder trial of Robert Belbin. Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday afternoon at Supreme Court in St. John’s. Belbin is accused of stabbing 22-year-old Seamus Secord to death on Feb. 7, 2023, during an altercation between the two on Mayor […]

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