Newfoundland News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An oil exploration company says it will lose its licence next month to drill wells near Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland.

The mayor of Conception Bay South, N.L., says he's appalled by the discovery of seven pit bulls abandoned in a home.

Fundraising events have been held by various groups and organizations since Typhoon Haiyan struck the Asian country in early November.

A Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador judge has rejected the provincial government's bid to exclude most of the people who are taking part in a class-action lawsuit over moose-vehicle collisions.

Bannerman Park wants to keep St. John's in The Loop. The park's foundation today announced "The Loop" as the name of the ice trail at Bannerman Park - 270 metres of refrigerated concrete that is the biggest part of a $6-million revitalization of the park.

The numbers available on the financing of the Lower Churchill project look good, nay excellent, according to former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice - now senior executive vice-president and vice-chairman at CIBC.

THE treasurer of a Colchester masonic lodge stole more than A 70,000 from the group to pay off spiralling credit card debts.

The RNC have released security images of a woman suspected of trying to rob a Marie's Mini Mart in St. John's last week.

CORNER BROOK Chris Caravan says he is never surprised by the changes he has seen in the postal delivery service in his 12 years as a Corner Brook mail carrier, but Wednesday came awfully close.

As of Wednesday, she has only received $3,500 from Saint John's Insurance Company out of Orlando, even through it agreed that the home is an undisputed $200,000 loss.

Depression is a terrible place to be, says one man who has experienced it. He's urging depressed people not to be afraid to ask for help.

Local postal workers are reeling from the news that door-to-door delivery is being phased out.

Sam Slade was officially sworn in as the MHA for Carbonear-Harbour Grace this morning - one day after the legislature closed for the year.

Around 3 p.m., police responded to a complaint of an armed robbery at a service station on Torbay Road in St. John's.

Klingberg scored with 30 seconds left to cap a 6-2 win for the St. John's IceCaps, who scored by committee Tuesday night against the Syracuse Crunch in American Hockey League action.

It seems that a move to staff Service Canada locations with people who have expertise in the affairs of Canadian Forces veterans will only be a temporary measure.

There were just 30 clergymen on last week's list of priests who have "credible claims against them" of sexually abusing minors.

The RNC is asking the public to help identify the person seen in a video and responsible for an armed robbery that occurred on Crosbie Road in St. John's last Thursday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador will borrow $5 billion over 40 years to help finance the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said Tuesday as she announced that the federal loan guarantee for the development is finalized.

This home on Thorburn Road is where a man had barricaded himself Monday armed with firearms.