The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in St. John's has laid charges against two people in connection with a traffic death on Blackhead Road near Cape Spear on Oct. 3.

Newfoundland and Labrador health officials announced Friday that the swine flu vaccine is now available to the general public.

Someone broke into a government building on Bell Island early Friday morning and attempted to burn it down, but firefighters extinguished the blaze before it caused too much damage.

A jeweller who chased down a robber Thursday evening in St. John's says he may never be able to practise his craft again.

A teenager is facing an impaired driving charge after crashing into a ditch in St. John's Thursday night.

Workplace safety investigators in the Yukon are blaming two recent mining deaths on faulty equipment brakes and a disregard for safety procedures.

The idea of setting up a tollbooth on a highway in St. John's has died a quick death.

A woman who answered a knock at her door early Thursday received a punch in the face from a stranger, police say.

Federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser has released a report that warns Marine Atlantic is on the verge of not being able to provide the ferry service it's responsible for between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Innu hunters continued to kill caribou in a closed hunting zone in central Labrador Thursday, with some of the hunters shooting at the animals from the middle of the Trans Labrador Highway as the animals wandered down the road.

Health officials have agreed to look into the complaint of a woman from Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula who says health care workers moved too slowly in diagnosing and treating her husband for swine flu.

A child protection expert from Ontario will investigate how social workers handled the case involving Amanda Duggan, a Newfoundland mother who was accused of injuring a child in her care, but who was never charged.

The wife of a Burin Peninsula man in hospital fighting for his life with H1N1 flu says doctors were too slow in diagnosing and treating her husband.

A high school in the centre of St. John's was shut down Wednesday because the furnace room filled with smoke, but it is expected to reopen Thursday.

A woman from central Newfoundland says her father died from swine flu-related complications last week, but his death has gone unreported as an H1N1 statistic.

A new president has been named for Memorial University of Newfoundland.

A babysitter who was accused of injuring a child in her care, and who was separated from her own two children for more than a year as a result, is telling a harrowing story of how she was treated by the child protection system.

Two men were trapped in an upside down vehicle Tuesday night, after a single-vehicle accident on a highway leading out of St. John's.

An announcement is expected Wednesday regarding a new president for Newfoundland and Labrador's only university.

The largest hospital in western Newfoundland said Tuesday it will resume some surgeries now that fewer health care workers and members of the public are showing up at its emergency room with flu-like symptoms.