Kirk Keeping News Today

Kirk Keeping, 40, is charged with murdering his ex-partner, Chantel John of Conne River, on Jan. 9, 2019. He's also charged with attempted murder of John's biological mother.

Accused murderer Kirk Keeping will not be getting a private lawyer funded by Newfoundland and Labrador's taxpayers, after his application for an appeal was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed Kirk Keeping's latest appeal. Keeping is charged with first-degree m...

Two more Newfoundlanders accused of serious crimes have taken their cases to the highest court in the country....

Numbers provided by the provincial director of public prosecutions show there are 17 homicide files before the courts in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ceremonies marking Canada’s National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People included the reading of the names of those whose lives have been taken.

Sixty people demonstrated outside a courtroom in Grand Falls-Windsor on Tuesday to show support for a woman killed in 2019.

Chantel John was allegedly killed by her ex-partner, Kirk Keeping, in January 2019. Angelina Francis, John's first cousin, organized a photo shoot to keep John's story in the public eye.

Newfoundland and Labrador's justice minister has been warned in a briefing note that prosecutors in the province, already burdened by an increase in workload, are feeling the strain over the high number of homicide cases.

The family of Kirk Keeping are heartbroken to announce the unexpected passing of Kirk, age 67, on February 14, 2021 due to a massive heart attack. Kirk was born in Marathon on February 20, 1953 to his parents Stanley and Edith Keeping. As a young boy he grew up in Nova Scotia, Calgary and his family ultimately ended up in Thunder Bay as his hometown. Kirk was always drawn to nature and missed many days at school skipping rocks and fishing at any creek he could find; he said that was where he wa...