Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Twila Grosse made history Thursday in becoming the first Black woman in Nova Scotia history appointed to the provincial cabinet.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Canadian Coast Guard announced Thursday it had ended its search for a Newfoundland man who went missing after a cod fishing boat sank Tuesday off the island's northeast coast.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island says a cyberattack launched today has crashed the main provincial government website.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's suicide rate has remained "stubbornly high" since 2012, and the province needs a comprehensive strategy to tackle the problem, says a Halifax-based clinical psychologist.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A retired Ontario health inspector says reports from inmates and judges about rodents at Newfoundland's largest jail suggest an "extreme" and long-standing infestation.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — People in a Newfoundland town are grieving the deaths of two fishermen while anxiously awaiting news about a third missing after a small boat sank off the community's coast Tuesday. Bob Traverse, mayor of Fleur de Lys, N.L.

HALIFAX — Hurricane Lee is now threatening to make an earlier and windier landing in the Maritimes after picking up speed on its approach to land, forecasters say.

HALIFAX — When English professor Brian Gibson sat down with a female student at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia on March 9, he expected a routine discussion on her struggles catching up on course work.

HALIFAX — A half-billion-dollar deficit forecast in last year’s Nova Scotia budget turned into a $115.7-million surplus, as the province closed the books on the previous fiscal year that ended March 31. The surplus figure is $621.

HALIFAX — Hurricane Lee is expected to lash parts of the Maritimes with strong winds and heavy rain this weekend, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre says much of its strength will be sapped by cooler sea-surface temperatures as it moves north.