St. John's News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The race for a new Progressive Conservative leader in Newfoundland and Labrador will be run by caucus outsiders.

St. John's city council member Danny Breen will run for the PC Party in the district of Virginia Waters, hoping to fill the seat that former premier Kathy Dunderdale held.

Carolyn Sooley can't ever erase the memories of her son lying in a Carbonear hospital bed fighting for his life.

The search for a wanted fraud suspect in St. John's County was called off Wednesday after a five hour manhunt.

Statoil has settled on the rig for use in completing a planned multi-well drilling campaign .

A woman charged in the first-degree murder of a Harbour Round man in Grand Falls-Windsor last year has been granted bail.

George Pearce, 74, is struggling to bring his St. John's apartment up to standards needed by Orkin to kill bed bugs.

The Salvation Army is pleased St. John's city council rejected a committee recommendation to designate two of its buildings as heritage properties.

The budding film-makers from St John's Primary in Wallingford, Chalgrove Primary, The Treehouse School in Cholsey and South Stoke Primary, were premiering their own movies.

Luke Shields, George Havill, Tom Knighton, Ayrton Jimenez and Jonnie Rendell will run from Exmoor to Dartmoor for Parkinson's UK By vicky scipio Five friends are getting ready to run from Exmoor to Dartmoor to raise hundreds of pounds for Parkinson's UK.

The city has been facing a lot of criticism from people this winter who think they haven't done enough to deal with snow on the ground.

Renowned actor Simon Russell Beale, who is playing King Lear in the Academy Award-winning Sam Mendes production at the National Theatre, visited St John's in Marlborough to dramatically enhance a Sixth Form lesson.

Councillor Bernard Davis said the city has repeatedly sent inspectors to 12 Cashin Ave. and ordered the rental property to be brought up to standards.

Search underway for fraud suspect on firstcoastnews.com: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/2014/03/12/fraud-suspect-search-st-augustine/6325951/ One male suspect remains at large and is believed to be in the area of I-95 north of C.R. 214.

A 23-year-old St. John's woman who held up a drug store pharmacy out of desperation for drugs has been given a 2-1/2-year jail term.

Traffic is backed up on Ruth Avenue in Mount Pearl as drivers contend with slippery conditions this morning.

As part of the Eco Schools Programme, St John's CE Infant School in Leigh has been awarded its third green flag for 'excellence in the field of environmental activity' in the seven years since it joined the scheme.

Elizabeth Jenkins says volunteers with the local troop simply aren't trained enough to be responsible for flagging potential threats.

At Confederation Building in St. John's today, a crowd gathered in a rally as part of the One Billion Rising campaign which is demanding the provincial government reinstate the Family Violence Intervention Court.

Jennifer Peddle says she hasn't been able to get in touch with her landlord since she moved in to her apartment in November.