The Latest Breaking News from Newfoundland and Labrador

The Canadian government has ended the Newfoundland and Labrador cod moratorium, which gutted the Atlantic-coast province’s economy and transformed its small communities more than 30 years ago

Newfoundland and Labrador made history in September as the first Canadian province to implement a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes also exist outside of Canada, including in Mexico, Philadelphia, Penn. and the United Kingdom. In Newfoundland and Labrador the tax amounts to 20 cents per litre of sugar-sweetened beverage.

A Norwegian oil company wants to drill 73m barrels a year off the coast of Newfoundland – the equivalent of adding 7m gas cars to the road

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — COVID-19 hospitalizations have dropped in Newfoundland and Labrador, while the number of active cases has risen slightly.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are reporting the 61st death due to COVID-19 in the province.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador will end its COVID-19 restrictions, including mask and vaccination requirements and gathering limits, as of March 14.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Four more people in Newfoundland and Labrador have died of COVID-19, bringing the province's total pandemic-related deaths to 56.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Ottawa and the Newfoundland and Labrador government have signed terms for two key pieces of a $5.2-billion financing agreement aimed at staving off a spike in provincewide electricity rates due to the beleaguered Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Anxiety is running high in Newfoundland and Labrador as the province waits on a federal decision about a proposed offshore oil project about 500 kilometres east of St. John's.