Matt McCann

CBC News

Matt McCann is the digital assignment producer for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Ottawa more than doubles northern cod quota

The move comes nearly a year after the federal fisheries minister ignored DFO advice and reopened the commercial cod fishery.

Badger fire downgraded in scale, but still burning near community

Premier John Hogan says there are no signs of the weather improving over the short term.

Parsons Pond woman guilty of dangerous driving causing death

Neila Blanchard struck and killed a 17-year-old student who was walking to school in Cow Head in 2017.

N.L. privacy commissioner investigating government response to school cyberattack

Commissioner Kerry Hatfield says she wants to make sure the province has taken adequate steps to prevent another data breach.

Labrador woman walks into raging blizzard to find help for her stranded family

Jada Sampson, 19, tried to save her stranded family by heading out into a blizzard on foot along the remote Trans-Labrador Highway.

Grand Falls-Windsor mayor pleading for more police in wake of targeted shooting

The mayor of Grand Falls-Windsor is begging both the province and the RCMP for more police in the wake of a weekend shooting, when someone fired multiple gunshots at a home on Suvla Road.

RNC searching for 'armed and dangerous' 19-year-old man, wanted for murder in St. John's

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is looking for 19-year-old Ibrahim Hussein, who is wanted for murder and is considered armed and dangerous after a what police call a targeted shooting in the east end of St. John's Tuesday night. 

Amid protests, quota cuts, and tariff threats, panel set to rule on snow crab prices

The Fish, Food and Allied Workers union and the Association of Seafood Producers have both submitted their price offerings for the lucrative — and contentious — snow crab season.

FFAW, seafood producers unite against Trump tariffs

The sometimes foes say they need government to help ensure the survival of the province's fishery.

Hundreds of thousands of N.L. students, teachers had info stolen in cyberattack, says department

The Department of Education issued an update Tuesday on an investigation into a late December cyberattack on a K-12 software program.