Newfoundland & Labrador News

DEER LAKE — The Transportation Safety Board has sent investigators to the site of a plane crash in western Newfoundland after a small plane crashed Saturday afternoon.

ST. JOHN'S — Residents of Musgrave Harbour, N.L., can go home, nearly a week after a nearby wildfire triggered an evacuation. Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Justice and Public Safety says the order to flee has ended, effective immediately.

ST. JOHN'S — A sailor was rescued at sea on Wednesday after he set out from Quebec on a solo journey to Greenland and then went missing off the southeast coast of Labrador.

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador's only university is axing 20 permanent and contract positions as it seeks to cut spending by $20.85 million.

ST. JOHN'S — Officials say a six-metre sailboat headed for Greenland is missing off the southeast coast of Labrador.

ST. JOHN'S — The mayor of a rural Newfoundland town is among the volunteer firefighters missing work to battle a raging wildfire in a part of Canada where unpaid town councils and first responders are shouldering increasing numbers of emergencies.

ST. JOHN'S — A fire that forced hundreds of people to evacuate Musgrave Harbour, N.L., remained about two kilometres from the town on Monday, but officials said less wind and more humidity was slowing its growth.

ST. JOHN'S — An out-of-control wildfire on Newfoundland's northeast coast forced residents of Musgrave Harbour, N.L., to flee the town as officials declared a state of emergency.

CHANCE HARBOUR, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture says a wildfire near Chance Harbour on the Bonavista Peninsula is now the largest in the province.

ST. JOHN'S — Cabin owners in northeastern Newfoundland spent much of Friday protecting their structures from a stubborn wildfire, pumping ocean water onto flare-ups stoked by a spate of dry, hot weather.