Atlantic News

SIMMS SETTLEMENT, N.S. — A collision on a highway between a vehicle and an ATV has claimed the life of a Nova Scotia man.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says federal policy is to blame for the cost of living crisis and any provincial measures to address the situation would only be "Band-Aids" on a much bigger problem.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s second largest municipality is vowing to fight proposed provincial legislation it contends will raise taxes for its residents.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Innu leaders say they will no longer be attending Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey's annual meetings with the province's Indigenous groups.

HALIFAX — Unionized hospital administrative staff in Nova Scotia have voted to accept a new five-year collective agreement with the province. More than 5,000 workers represented by three unions had been without a new contract since Oct. 31, 2020.

NUTTBY, N.S. — The RCMP in Nova Scotia have arrested a 52-year-old man wanted for a weekend shooting that injured a woman as she sat in a car outside a motel in Brookfield.

HALIFAX — The Mounties say they've shut down a Nova Scotia-based drug trafficker who was using the dark web to seek customers across Canada and the United States. The federal policing branch of the RCMP says it received information from the U.S.

CHARLOTTETOWN — A report on the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Prince Edward Island has found that the facilities were insufficiently prepared for a pandemic, and the crisis led to a deterioration in residents' quality of life.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A homeless woman living in a tent city across from Newfoundland and Labrador's legislature says it's "insulting" that the province's housing minister hasn't made his way over to the site to speak with residents.

HALIFAX — To help meet the demands of Nova Scotia's growing population, the province is investing $100 million over the next three years to help speed up the recruitment and training of skilled tradespeople.