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The father-in-law of one of two mariners who died last week when a tug sank quickly off Newfoundland is raising questions about that night’s rescue effort.

A well-known community volunteer on Newfoundland’s west coast has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault involving developmentally disabled men.

A brutal assault on a St. John’s cab driver is reason enough for city hall to pay for new security devices, operators say.

A clerk in a tiny community in northern Newfoundland has admitted she forged cheques and ignored the village’s bills, while pocketing money herself.

A councillor of a central Newfoundland town showed little emotion Tuesday as he confessed to four counts of sexual assault.

A child suffered minor injuries after two school buses collided in a western Newfoundland town on Tuesday.

Residents who sign online petitions urging the mayor of St. John’s to resign are fooling themselves, Andy Wells says.

A St. John’s court has denied bail to a man accused of assaulting his mother with a syringe.

Police pulled over a tractor on a main St. John’s road Sunday night, and then put the driver in a cell after finding liquor in the vehicle.

Hundreds of thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador taxpayer dollars are routinely being spent for medical services that were never performed, the province’s auditor general says.

St. John’s Mayor Andy Wells is laughing off suggestions from Liberals that he will be in a conflict of interest when he starts work next month at the Public Utilities Board.

A man accused of murdering a baby pleaded not guilty in a western Newfoundland courtroom Monday.

Police divers returned to the icy waters near a southern Newfoundland community Monday for the third day of searching for a missing man.

Police in St. John’s are looking for witnesses who may have seen a taxi driver being beaten by two would-be customers.

An Innu community in Labrador with a long history of addictions and suicide voted narrowly Thursday evening to ban alcohol on its reserve.

A popular file-sharing program exposed the private details of more than 150 people over the internet earlier this month, the Newfoundland and Labrador government said Thursday.

If Andy Wells plans to stay on as mayor while accepting a new full-time job, he should take a pay cut at city hall, a councillor says.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government admits it has serious problems with hospital-based infections, but will soon have a solution.

The legal problems of one of two men who have pleaded guilty to a copper theft that endangered public safety continued in a western Newfoundland courtroom Friday.

RCMP said Friday that charges are pending, after a school bus was rear-ended in northeastern Newfoundland Friday.