Rob Antle

CBC News

Rob Antle is a producer with the CBC's Atlantic Investigative Unit, based in St. John's.

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Crown relinquishes bid to keep $435K found in Kurt Churchill's home during murder probe

Prosecutors have abandoned efforts to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash seized by police executing search warrants in the wake of a 2020 homicide in St. John’s.

Carl Dymond tells court new backers are in the wings, as previous investor seeks repayment

A Saskatchewan investor who won a $2-million judgment against Stephenville airport owner Carl Dymond in Newfoundland now has the green light to have it registered in Ontario, where Dymond lives.

Thousands of letters to patients sat unclaimed in community mailboxes for a year, NLHS says

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services says it is sifting through about 20,000 pieces of recently returned mail intended for patients and suppliers.

As Stephenville awaits airport's fate, residents rue unfulfilled promises

Some community leaders believe things could have — and should have — been done differently.

Stephenville in holding pattern as airport faces possible power cutoff

Coun. Tom O'Brien says there is a feeling of “dismay” in the community about the status of the Stephenville Dymond International Airport.

Stephenville airport could soon lose power, as N.L. fires up air ambulance contingency plans

It could be lights out at the Stephenville Dymond International Airport later this week, if the beleaguered operation doesn’t pay its utility bill — and the provincial Health Department is making contingency plans for air ambulance services.

Cancer society wants cash from N.L. tobacco settlement targeted at prevention programs

The Newfoundland and Labrador government has decided how a half-billion-dollar legal settlement with major tobacco companies will hit the books, but there are few details at this point on how the province will actually spend that money when it flows into the provincial treasury.

Quebec man accused of sexual assault in Labrador avoids trial due to delays

The case is the latest in Newfoundland and Labrador in recent months to be dismissed on the Jordan application.

How big bucks from big tobacco prevented N.L.'s deficit from doubling

The Newfoundland and Labrador government included in this year's pre-election budget decades worth of revenues from the pending settlement of a lawsuit against tobacco companies, helping stem a flow of red ink that could have doubled the current projected deficit.

Court of Appeal rules that judge erred in deciding Steve Kent had privacy breached

Newfoundland and Labrador's top court has ruled that a lower-court judge made a series of errors when he found that the City of Mount Pearl breached the privacy of its former top civil servant Steve Kent.