Starting today it will be a little easier for people to search for a government job. The Public Service Commission job competitions web site has been upgraded to offer more features to help with searching and applying for positions.

RCMP say they nabbed a drunk driver in the middle of the afternoon, at a time when schools were about to let out students. Police say the vehicle had traveled through one school zone and would have passed through another had it reached its intended destination.

The minister of natural resources is promising that charges will be laid where evidence warrants in an illegal caribou kill in Labrador. Innu from Sheshatshui have been taking caribou in two government-declared forbidden zones in central Labrador.

Municipalities under the St.John's Regional water system are going to be paying more. The committee met yesterday to discuss the budget for next year. Mount Pearl Councillor John Walsh says it will cost the City of Mount Pearl an additional $70 thousand.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter of the Children's Wish Foundation has a new set of wheels thanks to the VOCM Cares Foundation and Ultramar.

Mount Pearl is reminding residents of snow clearing regulations. They come into effect Tuesday, when there will be no on-street parking in the city from 1am to 8am. Councillor Paula Tessier says the rules are in effect until the end of March, snow or no snow.

Santa's annual visit to the Janeway will be a little different this year, because of the H1N1 pandemic. Normally, Saint Nick is joined by members of the RCMP in their traditional red serge as they converge on the Janeway with big bags of presents to throw a huge party for the children.

Ronald McDonald House is a step closer to reality in St.John's with the official launch today of the Capital Campaign. The effort will support the development of this province's first Ronald McDonald House.

Stephenville RCMP have charged two men and two women in connection with thefts from two shopping malls in Corner Brook. One of the women has also been charged with breaching a court order. All four have been released to appear in court at a later date.

They lost a recent byelection, and voters will deliver a report card tomorrow in another district. But the latest provincial poll still shows the Williams government with sky high popularity ratings.

14 employees of the Burin-Marystown Community Training and Employment Board plan to strike this Friday. NAPE President Carol Furlong says the workers voted to strike on July 31st but held out for the sake of their clients in hopes government would recognize the importance of their work.

Anybody in the province can now receive their H1N1 vaccination as of Monday when Mass immunization clinics will be open province-wide. Clinics re-open on Monday. All clinics will operate on a first-come first-served basis.

Cruise Newfoundland and Labrador is looking to capitalize on opportunities in the Trans Atlantic cruise market through a new campaign.

The minister of Human Resources, Labour and Employment has painted a human face on the impact of the closure of the AbitibiBowater newsprint mill in Grand Falls Windsor. Susan Sullivan told the local Kiwanis Club altogether some 888 direct and indirect jobs have been impacted.

The crowds continue to turn out for the H1N1 mass immunization clinics. They will continue to operate on a first come, first served basis and use a numbering system.

The five crew members of a fishing vessel that caught fire offshore are on their way to St.John's. The Newfoundland Pearl went ablaze yesterday, but the crew was taken to safety by the Sir Eldon, and transferred to the Leonard J. Cowley overnight.

A brand new drill ship labelled by industry insiders as one of the most advanced in the world is expected to arrive this week. It's currently about 50 miles off St. John's, and will be used by Conoco Phillips in the Laurentian Basin for a wildcat well.

The Department of Natural Resources have charged three men from Trinity Conception with killing a moose in an area they were not authorized to hunt. Police say the animal was killed in the Goulds Big Pond cabin area but the moose license was for the Northern Peninsula region.

Marshall Dean has been officially sworn in as the MHA for the Straits/White Bay North. Lt Govenor John Crosbie joked as proceedings got underway this morning that it was the most Liberals he's seen in the room in a long time.

20 years ago today, the House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution, calling for the elimination of poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. Nine years later, a national report on child and family poverty shows just how far we are from attaining that goal.