Newfoundland & Labrador News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As the COVID-19 pandemic sent oil prices plummeting to historic lows, emails obtained by The Canadian Press show Newfoundland and Labrador was quietly bracing for two of its offshore oilfields to be abandoned by their owners.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Rain and wind warnings have been issued for every part of the island of Newfoundland, except the Great Northern Peninsula.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — After handing oil companies more than $280 million in cash during the COVID-19 pandemic, Newfoundland and Labrador's energy minister says it's tough to watch those same companies rake in record-shattering profits.

SHESHATSHIU, N.L. — After a wait of almost six years, an inquiry into the treatment of Innu youth in provincial government care began Monday with a message of hope from a respected elder.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Striking faculty have reached a tentative agreement with the administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Fortis Inc. reported a fourth-quarter profit of $370 million, up from $328 million a year earlier. The gas and power utility says the profit for the quarter amounted to 77 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Dec.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A 37-year-old man charged with sexual assault in connection with an incident last November at a New Brunswick school was a substitute teacher in Newfoundland and Labrador.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — With more than 58,000 people requiring help, the Canadian Red Cross says its relief efforts after post-tropical storm Fiona last September were its largest ever in the country.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As rates of sexual assault climb across Canada, nursing experts say there is a shortage of specially trained forensic nurses to properly care for victims.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Leaders of faculty unions say ongoing strikes at two Atlantic Canadian universities are a sign of growing frustration among instructors and staff, driven by persistent underfunding of public post-secondary education in the region.