The ferry Island Joiner remained tied up Friday evening after protesters from the northeast coast community of Long Island refused to get off the boat.

The federal government will begin consulting with experts across the country next week on controversial legislation passed to speed immigration applications by giving officials the power of selecting which ones to fast track.

A St. John's doctor who is serving a seven-year sentence for sexual assault and drug trafficking was denied bail Friday while waiting for an appeal.

Health Canada is asking seniors in Newfoundland and Labrador how and why they stopped lighting up, in a bid to learn more about the older generation's smoking - and quitting - habits.

A man facing charges after police siezed what they described as $6 million worth of illegal drugs from a house in Paradise in June, made a brief appearance Friday in provincial court in St. John's.

In his third day of testimony at the Cameron inquiry into faulty hormone receptor tests at Eastern Health, former clinical chief Dr. Donald Cook said he believes the root of the problem lies with corporate restructuring in the 1990s.

Residents of Long Island in central Newfoundland refused to leave the ferry that carries passengers to the mainland Friday morning to protest having to share a ferry with another community.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation (NLC) is considering a new shutdown rule for bars and clubs in response to complaints about after-hours bars.

More than 1,000 people turned out in Grand Falls-Windsor Thursday afternoon to draw attention to a staffing crisis at the town's hospital, but provincial Health Minister Ross Wiseman was not among them.

The former head pathologist at Eastern Health, who was in charge when hundreds of testing mistakes were discovered, told the Cameron Inquiry Thursday that he noticed sample quality problems in the spring of 2005.

A Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer was sent to hospital Thursday after a lunchtime accident landed the cruiser she was driving in a river.

A Tennessee teenager has succeeded in getting a memorial in her hometown dedicated to people who died in a 1985 airplane crash near Gander, N.L.

Police in Central Newfoundland were investigating a fatal house fire in the small town of Appleton Thursday morning.

Milk, whose price is regulated by a provincially appointed agency, rose eight cents a litre on July 1, though it may take a few days to notice on store shelves.

A rally in Grand Falls-Windsor in central Newfoundland on Thursday afternoon in support of overworked doctors is expected to be attended by thousands protesting cutbacks in health-care services in that area of the province.

A case of foreign accent syndrome recently cropped up in southwestern Ontario, says a new report published by researchers at McMaster University.

A radio play about the kindness of residents of Gander, N.L., who sheltered air passengers stranded by the Sept. 11 attacks has had its debut on British radio.

Chewy, the baby beaver adopted from the wild by a Corner Brook family last month, is switching from big city life in the west coast community to a nature park on the east coast.

A key witness told the Cameron inquiry on Wednesday that he didn't hear many concerns about the quality of laboratory samples at the time when mistakes were made on hundreds of breast cancer treatment tests.

The captain and first officer of the Farley Mowat, the ship seized after a protest of Canada's sealing hunt, have pleaded not guilty to coming too close to sealers.