St. John's News

A resident provided a tip to police at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sunday concerning a possible impaired driver in the area of Cashin Avenue, according to the RNC's overnight report.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary continues to gather information about an assault with a weapon on Saturday morning, in the area of Bishop's Cove at Harbour Drive in St. John's, that sent two men to hospital.

As Newfoundland and Labrador's newest Rhodes scholar, the 22-year-old from Pasadena now has an excellent academic opportunity that could help him achieve that goal.

St. John's - A Conception Bay South man accused of having his dog's collar so tight around its neck, it was causing injury, is due to appear before a judge later this month.

This year's event sponsor is Allied Plastics, Inc. from Twin Lakes. The Twin Lakes Chamber and community appreciate their contribution and thanks them for helping to make this event possible.

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

RNC Sgt. Paul Roche says police will be increasing their presence on the roads for the holiday season to deter people from driving while impaired.

The low-profile, independent bookstore in the heart of the Annapolis campus serves students, faculty and staff - and some area residents.

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)

St John's school principal Patrick Hazlewood has asked Marlborough Town Council to set aside free parking for sixth form students in town in a bid to combat traffic problems around the school.

The City of St. John's has contacted Jeremy Gardiner to say it's illegal to transfer or sell downtown parking permits, and to take down his ad.

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

The names of the victims of the Montreal Massacre, as well as the women from Newfoundland and Labrador who have either gone missing or died from domestic abuse, will be added to the tree being lit during a vigil Friday night in St. John's.

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

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

A seal hunter drags a harp seal back to his snowmobile in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in this April 2, 2005 file photo.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward A seal hunter drags a harp seal back to his snowmobile in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in this April 2, 2005 file photo.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward ST.

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.

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

The only remaining hospital in the Rockaways is seeking state approval for a multi-million dollar expansion - despite its bleak financial prognosis.

The mother of a youth who started a fatal fire at a boarding house in St. John's two years ago says a newly released report from the child youth advocate offers solutions that would have helped her son.