Newfoundland & Labrador News

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.

ST. JOHN'S — Police in Newfoundland have charged a 19-year-old with manslaughter in the fatal overdose of a 14-year-old boy. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says the teen was found unresponsive on March 14 at a home in Mount Pearl, N.L., near St.

OTTAWA — Some of the best-known Canadian cases of unusual sightings in the sky: May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake, Man.

Parts of southeastern Canada are no longer under a heat warning today but a large stretch of the country will continue to see scorching temperatures.

CHANCE HARBOUR — A wildfire near Chance Harbour on the Bonavista Peninsula has destroyed an unknown number of cabins in the area, says Newfoundland and Labrador's forest fire duty officer.