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Things have been quiet at the St. John's International Airport these past few days with no commercial aircraft travel because of a shortage of emergency staff at the airport fire hall.

St. John's International Airport activity uninterrupted as police investigate suspicious package

SaltWire Network |Updated 22 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s explosives disposal unit was at the St. John’s International Airport early Monday morning after receiving a report of a suspicious package. Police were called to the airport around 6 a.m. to investigate the ...

A Canadian Coast Guard rescue boat was dispatched from the station in Lark Harbour to the Port au Port area on Sunday, April 21, 2024, after a lobster fishing boat capsized. Two men from the south shore Bay of Islands community lost their lives in the tragic accident. – Photo Courtesy of Sam Anderson

Town of Lark Harbour mourns loss of two lobster fishermen

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 22 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

The first day of the lobster season was a tragic one on the west coast when two men from Lark Harbour lost their lives. The men were setting their lobster traps in the Port au Port area when their boat capsized. Four other people were rescued by ...

A 75-year-old woman is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Route 360 between Bay d'Espoir and Harbour Breton on Sunday, April 21.

Woman, 75, killed in single-vehicle crash near Bay d'Espoir, N.L.

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

A 75-year-old woman is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Route 360 between Bay d'Espoir and Harbour Breton on Sunday, April 21. Shortly after 4 p.m., RCMP received reports of the crash where a vehicle lost control, left the highway and went ...

File photo of an RCMP vehicle.

Elderly Stephenville Crossing woman dies in house fire: RCMP

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

A western Newfoundland woman in her 80s died in a house fire in Stephenville Crossing on Friday morning, April 19. Bay St. George RCMP officers were called to the fire on Seal Cove Road around 3:30 a.m. along with firefighters and paramedics, finding ...

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland presents the federal government budget for fiscal year 2024-25, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 16, 2024.

Ten things Gen Z and Millennials should know about the 2024 federal budget

Jenna Head |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

Generation Z (Gen Z) and millennials were focal points in the 2024 Federal budget. Titled "Fairness to Every Generation," the country's budget aims to even the playing field between young Canadians and their Generation X and Baby Boomer ...

Health Minister Tom Osborne. -Joe Gibbons/SaltWire file photo

'That's months and years of families or individuals waiting to start their family': Three years and still no IVF clinic in N.L.

Jenna Head |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

In 2021, the Liberals made a promise on their campaign trail: Newfoundland and Labrador will get an in-vitro fertilization clinic. "The Furey Government will support people who want to have children and help reduce current obstacles, by working with ...

There was a heavy police presence in the area of Blackmarsh Road and Jensen Camp Road Sunday night following reports of shots fired. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

UPDATED: Shots fired during two-vehicle collision in west-end St. John's — RNC

Atlantic Briefs Desk, Keith Gosse |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) is investigating gunshots and a pair of related two-vehicle collisions that occurred in west-end St. John's on Sunday night, April 21. Just before 8:30 p.m., officers responding to gunshots in the area ...

A community is in mourning after a fishing boat from Lark Harbour, N.L. capsized on April 21. - Unsplash/Marcus Urbenz

Condolences flow in after fishing boat capsizes near Lark Harbour

SaltWire Network staff |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

A vessel out of the Lark Harbour area on the province's west coast capsized on Sunday, April 21, prompting social media messages expressing consolations for the families involved. "Coastal communities know the joys and tragedies of being on the water ...

Calling it an original character, Laura Cross sports her Phoenix attire as she makes her way about the main show room during the 16th. annual Sci-Fi On The Rock convention at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland on Saturday afternoon, April 20, 2024.
-Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

Science fictional attire

Joe Gibbons |Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

Sporting their favourite fictional costumes and outfits, there were plenty of different looking characters to be seen this past weekend as the 16th. annual Sci-Fi On The Rock convention was held at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland on Cavendish Square ...

One man was sent to hospital following a collision between a motorcycle and a car Saturday evening. Saltwire Staff

Motorcyclist sent to hospital following collision with car in St. John's Saturday evening

SaltWire Staff |Updated Apr. 20, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

One man was taken to hospital Saturday evening after motorcycle-vehicle crash in St. John’s. The collision happened just after 6 p.m. at the intersection of Autumn Drive and Parkers Pond Road, in front of the entrance to the Windsor Lake water ...

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