NewfoundLand

Shut out in Newfoundland and Labrador in the last federal election, the Conservatives are hoping for a breakthrough in Danny Williams’s former stomping grounds.

The Crown says a man who defrauded a central Newfoundland development agency should be given as much as 18 months of house arrest.

Canada has not yet made up all of the jobs the economy lost during the recession, contrary to earlier official reports, according to a Statistics Canada report.

The newest member in the Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet will have to fight hard to hold his seat in the fall election, Opposition politicians charge.

A St. John’s man with a long list of impaired convictions could be facing serious prison time if he is found guilty again on two new charges.