Newfoundland & Labrador News

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.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — More than 800 faculty members at Newfoundland's Memorial University are on strike.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Nathan Young defeated Greg Smith 8-6 on Sunday to win the Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard and qualify for the Tim Hortons Brier.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Record collectors in Newfoundland will have a chance Saturday to paw through selections from the vast vinyl library belonging to 98-year-old radio station VOWR.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Residents of a historic fishing neighbourhood in St. John's are cautiously relieved after a pair of floodlights that had been shining into homes since last May suddenly shut off.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A doctor shortage is threatening to undo years of work turning the Newfoundland town of Bonavista into an internationally lauded example of rural growth and development, the community’s mayor says.