Newfoundland News

Defence Minister Peter MacKay, seen here in January, is to unveil new environmental spending in Gander, N.L. Photograph by: Mathieu Belanger, Reuters Just days after Newfoundland and Labrador's premier reacted angrily to the Harper government's decision to renege on its promise to establish a new military unit in the province, Defence Minister ...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of brutally killing his girlfriend and their 18-month-old son Monday at the Effort apartment where they lived.

The search is over. A man accused of murdering his girlfriend and their toddler son is now behind bars.

Police are searching for a 23-year-old Effort man suspected of the shooting death of a 21-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy late Monday night at the apartment where the three lived.

The Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry is issuing the call for applications from interested individuals and organizations for standing and funding during Phase I of the Inquiry.

Sir Paul's Halifax fans treated to morning Macca McCartney gives interview to radio station Q104 By OUR STAFF Thu.

Hundreds of people gathered in a St. John's park on Wednesday to observe the unveiling of three plaques honouring Newfoundlanders who died in Europe during the First World War.

Have you ever studied the packaging our fish comes back in? Yes, our fish, Chinese processing and Chinese packaging ... but our fish and shame.

John K. Crellin and Raoul R. Anderson sign copies of their book, "Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's Journey" at Costco earlier this week.

The Coast Guard is teaming with Massachusetts law enforcement agencies this weekend to support "Operation Dry Water." The program aims to raise awareness of the hazards of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The Pocono Family YMCA will host the American Freedom Festival 5K Run at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 4, at Dansbury Park in East Stroudsburg.

With regard to the very serious problems facing our health-care system - a crisis, some would say - two recent statements by provincial cabinet ministers seem to suggest that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

It appears, in recent days, that Premier Danny Williams is finally starting to succumb to the madness.

The lone survivor of a February S-92 crash which killed 17 off the coast of Newfoundland has filed a lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft and its subsidiary Keystone Helicopter Corp.

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The families of 15 passengers who died in the crash of a Sikorsky helicopter off Newfoundland and the sole survivor of the tragedy are suing a subsidiary of the company in the United States.

The Royal Bank of Canada issued its economic forecast this week and there was some good news for this province.

You know the economy's in bad shape when a beer maker cuts off its free brewskis-for-retirees program.

Yes No Undecided Last updated at 8:44 AM on 09/06/09 Kidney Cancer Canada founders Deb Maskens and Tony Clark visit St.

The number of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians out of work in May 2009 compared to the same month last year is equivalent to almost the entire population of the Town of Paradise.