Newfoundland and Labrador

Mounties in central Newfoundland are investigating two cases of intimate partner violence following separate shootings of women last week in the community of Grand Falls-Windsor.

RCMP in Newfoundland have charged a 52-year-old man with murder after responding to a report of a shooting early Friday morning.

Mounties say one person is dead and another is fighting for their life in hospital after a shooting in a central area of Newfoundland.

Staffing shortages across Newfoundland and Labrador hospitals make for stressful days and less interaction with patients, according to a veteran pharmacist in St. John’s.

Former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams donated more than $46,000 to the Progressive Conservatives ahead of last year’s election in a province where corporations and individuals can make political contributions as large as they want.

An international headline describing Newfoundland as a ‘freezing Canadian island’ has raised a few eyebrows in the province and the ire of the province’s tourism minister.

Newfoundlanders were having a chuckle on Monday over international media reports saying passengers on a British Airways flight diverted to St. John’s last week were stranded on a frozen island somewhere in Canada.

There has been a surge of telephone wire thefts across the country that have left people without phone or internet. Many are pointing fingers at scrap yard owners, including those who say they refuse to buy copper from thieves.

RCMP in Newfoundland have caught their man, who was catching some Zs during an alleged break and enter.

The federal government says it will spend a record-setting $8 billion on defence-related projects in Newfoundland and Labrador, though planning remains in the early stages.

The students’ union at Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university wants to axe the campus radio station.

About 250 doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador are warning of an “exodus of physicians” if the province rolls out its mandatory new electronic health information system as planned.

Parts of Nova Scotia got an early spring blast from Old Man Winter on Sunday, and Newfoundland and Labrador is next.

Intense workouts and social media pressure are driving a spike in rhabdomyolysis cases in young women in Newfoundland and Labrador, a physician with the province’s health authority said Thursday.

The Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador is working to save the province’s boat-building tradition.