Newfoundland News

Choir member Mary Dobbie, 100, receives her Guinness World Record certificate from Air Commodore William Gambold, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Staff, family and friends gathered at St John's House care home, at Kirk Hammerton, to be entertained by the choir and to congratulate the singers who, with an average age of 91, had broken ... (more)

Actors Douglas Sullivan and Avery Ash hitchhiking at Cape Spear, Newfoundland in the road movie, 'Hold Fast.'

St. John's Lutheran Church in Summit is preparing for a merry Christmas this year.

Firefighters from the St. John's Regional Fire Department's Brookfield and Mount Pearl fire stations responded to a structure fire at 1034 Blackmarsh Road just before 10 a.m. this morning The 911 call came from the Re/Max office on the corner of Blackmarsh and Topsail roads.

The building, which did not have electricity running to it, was one of a number of abandoned buildings in what apparently is a former swine breeding farm.

A SCOUT group in Clitheroe is set to be reopened next year after being closed following the leader's retirement.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Almost $500,000 is being spent by the federal and Newfoundland and Labrador governments to enable the Atlantic Seal Development Association to develop a frozen seal meat product for the wholesale market and a vacuum packed product for retailers.

The RCMP in Corner Brook is on the scene of a traffic accident on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Lady Slipper Road intersection.

Nelson Mandela agreed to an impromptu meeting with anti-apartheid activists during a stopover in St. John's in June 1990.

Two men suspected in a violent armed robbery in the centre of the capital city earlier this week have been freed from jail.

There was a lot of fanfare at the launch, but a direct flight between St. John's and Moncton has been cancelled after just two months.

Impaired driving charges laid Wednesday against a school bus driver in St. John's have outraged school officials and family of the students in his care.

A number of issues regarding the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery will be discussed Friday in St. John's when federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea meets with union boss Earle McCurdy.

The High Street was closed to traffic for the day to allow for the festive celebrations to take place.

David Moores is a lawyer and a resident of St. John's, and has piloted small helicopters at night.

The case of a man accused of being drunk when he hit and killed a motorcyclist last summer in St. John's was called in provincial court today.

The driver and passenger of a beige Chevrolet Impala were taken to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's with undetermined injuries as the result of a head-on collision with a Mazda 3 on Prince Philip Drive, just past 9:30 a.m. today.

This dog was rescued in Conception Bay South from a man who now faces an animal cruelty charge.

THE Wirral Globe and our readers have been praised for helping this year's Light Up A Life campaign raise almost A 90,000.

Bell Mobility says while the plan to erect a cell tower in west end St. John's may be abandoned, the company believes each proposal should be assessed separately.