About a dozen paramedics and emergency medical responders gathered in a show of strength at Western Memorial Regional Hospital Friday afternoon.
Const. Jocelyn Noseworthy, a Stephenville RCMP officer, is lucky to have escaped with non-life threatening injuries after being dragged hanging out of a moving vehicle on Thursday.
A young Ming’s Bight man died Thursday night following a single-vehicle accident in the Baie Verte Peninsula community.
The swine flu has hit the western region of the province hard, but Jeff Fost hopes some lessons have been learned from it.
Residents of Deer Lake who were worried their clinic’s X-ray services were going to be cut can breathe a sigh of relief now that Western Health has announced plans to have the new equipment installed and operational before Christmas.
Western Health is planing to go ahead with H1N1 influenza A vaccination clinics this weekend, despite not being sure they can inoculate everyone who shows up.
The fire services of Steady Brook and Little Rapids are getting even closer to becoming one service.
Staff Sgt. Mark Hancock says it’s fortunate his officers received a report of two vehicles tailgating and racing on Route 440 along the north shore of the Bay of Islands, but not so fortunate the suspects weren’t apprehended.
A long-standing disagreement between Kippens town officials and Kippens residents Pat and Delores Brennan regarding the installation of a septic system on their property at 448A Kippens Rd.
Larry Hickey will be spending at least another week in jail before a date can be set for a bail hearing.
Western Health moved its H1N1 immunization clinics into the school setting for the first time Thursday.
Western Health plans to keep its immunization clinics open even if it runs out of H1N1 influenza A vaccine.
It appears there is quite the academic workload either being done at home or waiting for catch up for post-secondary students in this area.
The psychiatric assessment of a Corner Brook man who allegedly pointed a 12-gauge shotgun at a woman in her home last week has been completed, but the man’s lawyer has yet to review it with him.
Western Health says it has a number of continuity plans in place should H1N1 influenza A become overwhelming to the system.
The consultants hired to develop a leisure and recreation master plan for the City of Corner Brook absorbed plenty of suggestions from the community during a public forum they hosted at the Pepsi Centre Thursday evening.
Jamie Penton is happy Canada’s long gun registry is going to be scrapped. The vice-president of the Bay of Islands Rod and Gun Club said the firearms registry cost $2 billion and didn’t accomplish what it was supposed to — make Canadians safer from gun violence.
Two new positions have been created in Grand Falls-Windsor to help the province effectively manage lands that were formerly owned by AbitibiBowater.
Wednesday evening members of the RCMP were looking for a John’s Beach man considered to be armed and dangerous.
Western Health is attempting to adapt to the attack of the H1N1 influenza A virus. Dr.