Jersey News

A tax helpdesk will be touring Jersey from this month.

Islanders who smoke are being encouraged to stop for 28 days this month.

The latest phase of a £75 million development on Bath Street has gone on the market to first-time buyers.

Tickets for the 2022 Channel Islands Christmas Lottery have gone on sale, with a first prize of at least £300,000.

Jersey's airline will bring back the holiday flights next summer to Europe's party island.

Three men were arrested in the early hours of this morning (30 September) following raids by police.

The Tinathon has returned to West's Centre for another year of food collection to help Jersey's homeless.

Alan Moore has been appointed Principal Expert Adviser to the government's review of Jersey's new hospital.

Condor says car ferry passenger numbers from the UK were up by almost a third over the peak summer period.

A limited edition Ferrari collided with a Honda Jazz on Victoria Avenue just before lunchtime today (29 September).

Pilots will have to take more direct routes to when arriving into and leaving the island in changes designed to reduce emissions and noise.

More than 1,000 people took part in the Around the Island Walk in June, raising £100,000 for charity.

Organisations in the arts, science, and sports sectors have just days left to apply to the Jersey Community Foundation for a share of £422,890.

14 islanders are now in the process to become foster carers after a government plea following the worst carer crisis in a decade.

Deputy Hilary Jeune becomes the island's first minister for Energy and Climate Change.

The 'Charlie & Spud and the Corn Riots' has been published just in time for the anniversary of the Jersey Corn Riots.

Lenders are reviewing their rates and pulling products in response to predictions of a sharp rise in the Bank of England base rate.

Details have been revealed for an overhaul of St Helier's harbours, including a modern new passenger terminal.

The government has confirmed that changing Jersey's notes and coins following the death Queen Elizabeth will be gradual and is likely to take several years.

The e-foiler ferry is being developed by Artemis Technologies in Belfast and will be 100% electric powered.

Jersey's dairy farmers are getting £400,000 in emergency government funding to meet rising feed costs.

Two officers from Jersey who were part of the world's largest policing operation have shared what it was like looking after a million mourners.

Jersey's lifeboats had a busier summer than 2021, with more than 50 call-outs.

The Jersey Association of Youth & Friendship (JAYF) has been given a £500 donation in Alliance vouchers from Rotary Club de la Marche for its foodbank.

Jersey’s Martha MacDonald is up against 16 comedians nationwide for the Funny Women Content Creator Award 2022.

Events are taking place across the island this week in support of cancer charity Macmillan Jersey.

A former headmistress of Jersey College for Girls has left a substantial donation in her will to fund the education of future pupils.

Two women have been sentenced to community service for defrauding £17,000 from an elderly man who believed they were his friends.

A fresh pledge has been made that affordable homes will be built on the site of St Saviour’s hospital.

FlyDirect will run four direct routes to popular European holiday destinations next year.

Three men have been charged with robbery and false imprisonment after armed police were deployed to Sark this week.

A quarter of children in Jersey are overweight or obese when they start school.

820 islanders died in 2021, with cancers and circulatory diseases remaining among the leading causes of death.

Scott Hall will start work at Police HQ in mid-October.

Jersey's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has been judged to be 'weak' in areas including how its governed, how data is collected and how risk and performance is managed.

A team of dedicated islanders is cycling from London to Paris to raise money for Jersey Stroke Support so stroke survivors have better access to help.

Armed officers were deployed to Sark to respond to reports of an aggregated burglary.

Islanders will keep more of what they earn and get bigger benefits to help meet rising costs.

The Festival of Words returns to Jersey after a two-year break due to the pandemic with a line-up that includes internationally-renowned Sebastian Faulks, Mr Gum creator Andy Stanton and best-selling crime-writer Peter James.

Digital Jersey has appointed a not-for-profit organisation to help design a £20 million Technology Accelerator Programme.

Ministers have changed their plans to raise Jersey's minimum wage to £10 next month. It will go up to £10.50 in November instead.

Hundreds of islanders filled Jersey's Town Church for a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

A French rescue helicopter was drafted in to rescue a climber who had fallen from cliffs at Sorel Point.

Jersey's Chief Minister Kristina Moore and four other of the island's politicians will head to London to attend to the lying-in-state.

Covid-19 testing, both PCRs and LFTs, will remain free as the government prepares for waves of infection this autumn and winter.

LibertyBus has been sold to Kelsian Group Limited, a large Australian transport provider.

Three engines, a water carrier and 19 firefighters attended the scene of a major house fire on Route des Camps.

Non-urgent surgery and routine outpatients' appointments due to take place at Jersey's General Hospital on the day of the Queen's funeral have been postponed.

Jersey Electricity wants to build a solar farm on land at Sorel Point, near Ronez Quarry

Jersey's Minimum Wage will rise to £10 per hour next month.

Condor says it still hopes to add another conventional ferry to its fleet.

Tributes are being paid to former Senator Sarah Ferguson, who has died at the age of 80.

There will be a Service of Thanksgiving for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Jersey's Town Church.

Officers from Jersey have been drafted in to support the Metropolitan Police for the Queen’s funeral.

The Bailiff has asked that pubs in Jersey remain open to show the Queen's funeral, while parish halls will also be screening the service.

Jersey's politicians will be asked to remove GST from food.

A group of islanders are sleeping in a Jersey car park to raise awareness of homelessness.

Two-thirds of adults in Jersey are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus.