On Tuesday evening at 8:39, RNC patrol officers responded to a report of a suspicious youth in Mount Pearl.

When police questioned the youth, they attempted to mislead police by providing a false name. Officers dertermined the youth was meant to abide by a court order which included a daily curfew.

As a result, the youth was arrested for mischief and breaching a release order. The youth was held for court.

Two relieved families were reunited with lost pets this weeks.

Skyler the golden retriever, who bolted during fireworks on New Year’s Eve was located yesterday morning in the area of Thorburn Road much to the relief of the Higdon family of Kenmount Terrace.

Skyler just moments after being found safe yesterday.

Meanwhile, Duke the setter, who had been missing for days, was also located yesterday. Sara Pelley-Ivany a member of Duke’s search party and a friend of the dog’s worried owners, says Duke decided to take a stroll after being let out to do his business, and never returned.

Pelley-Ivany says a medium was even brought in to help, but that’s not what led them to find the dog.

“He just decided to show up on (owner) Shelly’s doorstep.”

Canadians are feeling less patriotic than usual these days, a new poll suggests.

People who are passionate about darts say the face of the sport is changing on P.E.I. That was evident at a recent provincial qualifier for a national championship where more women and young players were aiming for the bull's eye.

Prince Edward Islanders may see an increase in garbage collection fees this year as the Island Waste Management Corporation is asking for permission to increase its rates.

The lawsuit alleged the seafood company knowingly defrauded the U.S. government by creating shell companies to operate a fishery in Virginia

The number of kids with complex communication needs in kindergarten has tripled in the last six years and doubled for students in Grades 1 to 8, officials with the Thames Valley District School Board say.

One of the oldest public arts funders in North America hired its first Indigenous chief executive officer late last year.

Representatives for Ontario farmers and businesses say Canada's next leader needs to take quick action and prioritize the economy in the face of tariff threats by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Reflecting on nearly a decade of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's tenure, they say his policies have brought both boons and challenges to their sectors.

A group of Markham residents say they want Metrolinx and the city to silence train whistles. The transit agency has brought back the horns after years of quiet, following a 'near miss incident' west of Unionville GO Station.

Climate change is not only threatening communities and homes along Nova Scotia's coastline, it's also washing away places, buildings and artifacts. As Erin Pottie reports, some say efforts to preserve local history are a losing battle.

The federal government has filed in court a 100-page reply to John Risley’s latest tax appeal, arguing in detail why the Canada Revenue Agency believes the wealthy and prominent Nova Scotia businessman underreported his income by millions of dollars a year.

A new study from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., examined the health impacts of pollution from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. The lead author said there's been a lack of research on the topic in Canada.

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Edible cushioning for those fragile shipments….

You know those small pieces of Styrofoam that are used to protect the contents of a package from shifting or breaking during transport? Right: They’re sometimes called ‘popcorn’. Well, a Japanese company is now using literal popcorn for the job. Popcorn manufacturer and delicacy wholesaler Azechi Foods’ manager Shihoko Wada, had been struggling to promote popcorn on its online store where people mainly bought delicacies. 

Then she was inspired by a laptop repair technician at a management seminar. He used cylindrical puffed corn snacks as a cushioning material. That sparked the revelation to Wada that not only could the popcorn be used as an actual snack after use, but it was also a great opportunity to attract attention to the company.

And that’s exactly what happened. Before long photos of the bags started going viral on Japanese social media, and the company soon started receiving orders from all sorts of businesses, leading to even more exposure via national TV outlets. Although the bags of popcorn packing material are more expensive than conventional cushioning materials, they can be eaten afterward, which helps eliminate waste, unlike other cushioning or filler materials, most of which end up in the trash. – from Oddity Central

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services has released details on preparations being made to relocate some services currently at the Health Sciences Centre and St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital to the new ambulatory health hub at the former Costco building on Stavanger Drive.

Services being relocated include Audiology, Blood collection, Appointment scheduling and registration, some Medicine and surgery specialist clinics, and Thrombosis.

A new pain clinic will also be added to the ambulatory health hub.

Also onsite, to support the hub, will be new support services including pharmacy, medical records, environmental services, and security.

Some outpatient services will remain at the Health Sciences Centre and St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital.

The urgent care centre, which will be co-located with the ambulatory health hub, is also scheduled to open in 2025. Construction is proceeding on the facility as planned, including the addition of a second floor.

Premier Andrew Furey is creating a new expert panel to provide advice to cabinet on Churchill Falls negotiations, and he says they are looking at ways for some of that information to be released publicly.

Furey announced on the first day of the MOU debate that the team will be established to advise cabinet as they work towards binding agreements. They will be separate from the negotiating committee.

All opposition parties are calling for a independent review of the MOU, and while Furey says the team will provide another level of oversight on the process, a criticism is that they only report to cabinet and not publicly.

Furey says the challenge with the situation is that there is commercially sensitive information that cannot be released, but they are looking at ways for advice from the team to be made public.

“One of the models that has existed in the past….has been Muskrat Falls oversight updates and things, where they weren’t really revealing commercially sensitive information but were providing fulsome updates and that is something we’re contemplating.”

That answer does not satisfy the wants of PC leader Tony Wakeham.

He says the MOU needs to go before an independent panel for review, and the PCs will not be voting for the agreement until that happens.

NDP Leader Jim Dinn has written a letter to the Premier asking for an independent review of the Churchill Falls MOU.

Dinn has given Furey two options for a review, which he says must be independent, and “perceived to be independent,” and report back to the House of Assembly and the public.

The first option is for the PUB to review the deal, and the second is to establish an independent expert oversight and review committee to do the same.

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the president’s office said Wednesday.

Schallenberg, 55, will take on the duties of outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation over the weekend after his efforts to put together a coalition without the Freedom Party collapsed. Nehammer plans to step down on Friday.

President Alexander Van der Bellen’s office said in a statement that the head of state will formally task Schallenberg with “continuing the management of the chancellery and leading the interim government.”

It will be Schallenberg’s second — and, again, likely brief — stint as Austria’s leader. Schallenberg served as chancellor for less than two months in late 2021 after Sebastian Kurz resigned, before passing the job to Nehammer and returning to the Foreign Ministry.

The anti-immigration, euroskeptic and Russia-friendly Freedom Party won Austria’s parliamentary election in September, but was initially shunned by other parties.

After Nehammer announced his resignation, his conservative Austrian People’s Party made an abrupt U-turn on its previous refusal to contemplate working with the Freedom Party under its leader, Herbert Kickl.

On Monday, Kickl received a mandate to try to form what would be the first national government led by the far right since World War II. That’s a process that could take weeks or months, and isn’t guaranteed to succeed.

Schallenberg has said he wouldn’t stay in the government under Kickl.

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A young person who wasn’t supposed to be out and about late in the evening wasn’t able to pull the wool over the eyes of the RNC.

Police got a report of a suspicious young person hanging around Mount Pearl just after 8:30 p.m.

The teen attempted to mislead officers by giving a false name, but that didn’t get them off the hook.

The young person was found to be in violation of their court ordered curfew. They were taken into custody to await a court appearance.

Albert Dalton, a hip-hop artist from Paradise, N.L., expects an average of 1,000 plays on each song. That changed in December when he checked his Spotify statistics and saw hundreds of streams alone concentrated in Helsinki, Finland.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned on Monday. With a federal election set to take place sometime before October 2025, N.L. politicians say the province's seats in the House of Commons matter.

Shogun is still racking up awards, nabbing four Golden Globes on Sunday — just a few months after winning a record-breaking 18 Emmy awards. One of those Emmys went to Krista Hann, a makeup artist from Paradise who worked on the show. The CBC’s Carolyn Stokes caught up with Hann over the holidays to talk to her about why 2024 was her dream year, and how she hopes to work in the Newfoundland and Labrador film industry.