A downtown St. John's resident, who couldn't get into his driveway after plow operators blocked it with snow, says he's getting no satisfaction from the city.

One of the people charged with assaulting an elderly man in his home in rural Newfoundland last fall pleaded not guilty Tuesday during a court appearance.

St. John's Deputy Mayor said Tuesday that city hall must play a role in repairing fishing stages and wharves that were damaged during last Friday's storm - even though the mayor has said the properties aren't a municipal responsibility.

Construction crews will soon start building the final section of a highway intended to ease congestion in and out of Conception Bay South, a growing community next to St. John's.

A company that wants to build a large complex near the St. John's waterfront took a beating at a public forum Monday evening.

A North East Avalon man has been charged in connection with sexual assaults dating back to 1971. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Child Abuse Sexual Assault Unit arrested the 57-year-old man, who appeared in court in St.

A panel of Supreme Court of Appeal justices has reserved their decision in Barry Oake’s attempt to appeal his 22-month jail term for sexually assaulting teenage boys.

Brian Murphy, vice-president of the union representing offshore workers, told the Wells inquiry in St.

  Members of Grand Falls-Windsor RCMP with the assistance of RCMP police dog services seized marijuana, cash and related drug paraphernalia after executing a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant at a residence in Peterview Monday.

Brian Murphy, vice-president of the offshore workers union, told the Wells inquiry in St.

A man and a woman were apprehended in Corner Brook for shoplifting Friday. RNC say a 37-year-old St. George's man and a 31-year-old woman from Stephenville Crossing have been charged with four counts of shoplifting from businesses in Corner Brook Plaza.

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Newfoundland and Labrador's own Wonderbolt Circus is taking its show across the province. It's the same program that will be presented at the Vancouver Olympics later this month. Tonight's debut show will begin at 7:30 at the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John's.

An Ontario based company is looking to buy a chunk of the former Hope Brook Gold Project on the southwest coast. Over the next four years, Castillian Resources Corporation will acquire one hundred percent of approximately 993 claims from the Quinlan brothers.

Police in central Newfoundland have made a drug bust. RCMP in Grand Falls-WIndsor searched a house in Peterview yesterday and came away with a quantity of marijuana, cash and related drug paraphernalia.

A major storm system has shut down most of Eastern Newfoundland today. All schools in the Vista school district are closed for the day due to the blizzard.

The case of troubled former hockey player Daniel Ryder was called briefly in provincial court in St. John's this morning.

It might have been the ceremony, or it could have been the Caribous last home game against the Grand Falls Cataracts, but in any case there was a capacity crowd at the Clarenville Events Centre on Saturday night.

RCMP in Clarenville are currently investigating a break and enter that occured in the early morning hours of Feb. 4 at Random Square Mall, Manitoba Drive.

The pre-budget consultation in Clarenville last week was brief. Just three people made presentations to Finance Minister Tom Marshall during his stop in Clarenville.

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    A small gathering of 25 people, including municipal politicians, business leaders, and special interest groups, were on hand Feb.

    The end is near for Bruce Sparkes, who is cluing up his three-year term as the board chairman for Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador (HNL).

    In Noggin Cove, Cyril Gillingham said there are many older folks who love to hear old time country music – the sort of sounds they used to hear growing up in the community.

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A total of eight impaired related charges have kept Placentia-Whitbourne RCMP busy over the past week or so.

Do you have a strong interest in your community and helping to keep its citizens safe? Are you interested in the police force and learning more about what they actually do and have to deal with? If so, becoming an auxiliary police officer might be just the volunteer position for you.

One of the largest construction projects currently underway in this country - the US $2.8 billion nickel processing plant near Long Harbour, Placentia Bay - is proceeding on schedule, according to officials with Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador.

Imagine you could improve a severe and debilitating stutter with a small device that fits in your ear, similar to a hearing aid.

Bay St. George District RCMP report Feb. 9

To ensure qualified people become members as quickly as possible, the federal government and Federation of Newfoundland Indians announced last week an accelerated application process for the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band.

He's among the nearly 2,000 Canadian troops deployed to Haiti as part of Operation HESTIA, the Canadian Force's humanitarian response to the Caribbean country's Jan.

Craig Harnum says travelling to the United Arab Emerate state of Dubai for a firefighting competition was an unbelievable experience.

Stephenville Airport Corporation has asked the provincial government for money to keep its doors open while it negotiates with a third-party operator.

Transportation Minister Tom Hedderson believes it is time for the old Nicholsville Bridge to disappear, though the bottom of the Humber River isn’t quite what he had in mind.

 It can never be a good feeling to move to a new city and get rejected. That’s how former Halifax, N.

At the end of the school day at most any elementary school, there are see lineups of cars, trucks and school buses idling as parents and guardians wait to collect their children.

A date for a preliminary inquiry into the case of a man facing three sex-related offences will be set Feb.

The case of a tractor trailer driver from Hare Bay arrested after police found approximately 50 pounds of marijuana on his rig has been set over until March 9.

The addition of a bone-density scanner to the Carbonear General Hospital will help ease waiting lists for bone-scanning procedures, say local health officials.

For a relatively young organization, the Eating Disorder Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is already fairly well known among the public, especially in the Conception Bay North and Trinity South area.

Glenn Littlejohn has had to make hundreds of decisions over the years, but none quite as tough as having to decide between two credible candidates for the position of Fire chief.

Significant increases in property assessments will see most Carbonear taxpayers having to dig deeper this year when they receive their tax bills.

Janet Neil-Cleary, second from right, mother of Stanley Cup winner Dan Cleary of Riverhead; his brother Neil Cleary, second from left, and nephews Ewen and Nolan Cleary were on hand for the opening ceremonies of the Danny Cleary Novice Jamboree, held Jan.

In just a little over a month athletes from all over the province will converge in Grand Falls -Windsor for the 2010 NL Winter Games.

A Grand Falls-Windsor man has waived his right to a bail hearing until later this month. Glenn Alvin Scott Budgell, 33, formerly of Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor, had previously been charged with assault causing bodily harm, failing to provide the necessities of life and two additional counts of assault after a joint investigation by RCMP and Child, Youth and Family Services.

In a news release this afternoon, the provincial government announced it is assuming custody and mangement of the former pulp and paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Grand Falls House and the former AbitibiBowater mill manager's residence.

The closure of the paper mill wasn't the inspiration for the province's decision to officially open its new office at the Excite Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor Tuesday for administering the home heating and parental benefits programs.

Give and you shall receive - that's what Percy Noseworthy's parents always taught him when he was a boy growing up in Leading Tickles.