Newfoundland & Labrador News

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.

ST. JOHN'S — The federal Fisheries Department says it found no evidence that fish-farming waste along Newfoundland's south coast was harming fish or their habitat.

ST. JOHN'S — Protesters have blockaded a Hydro-Québec work site at a proposed hydroelectric project in traditional Innu territory in Labrador, prompting the utility to suspend its operations in the area.

ST. JOHN'S — A romantic message in a bottle thrown from the cliffs of an island off Newfoundland nearly 13 years ago was found on a beach in Ireland this week — and the couple behind it are still in love.