Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative premier has joined a call from leaders across the country asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss carbon pricing.

FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick school district has gone to court to prevent the government from forcing it to apply the province's policy on gender identity for students.

HALIFAX — The first female Speaker of the Nova Scotia legislature is leaving politics.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia legislature wrapped up a spring sitting Friday that saw the Progressive Conservative government present a budget and pass just two bills. Since the sitting began on Feb.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch says he won't run in the upcoming provincial election.

HALIFAX — A second water main break in as many days at a large hospital complex in Halifax forced the cancellation of some surgeries Thursday, while leaving no running water for drinking or for flushing toilets.

HALIFAX — Tiny, translucent baby eels, called elvers, are back in the news after two Mi’kmaq men from Nova Scotia reported being detained by federal fisheries officers and then left far from home at 1 a.m.

HALIFAX — A $30,000 monthly subsidy intended to preserve a disused Cape Breton rail line will not be renewed, Nova Scotia’s economic development minister said Thursday.

HALIFAX — A parrot in Nova Scotia that has been showing signs of depression since the COVID-19 pandemic is moving to Ontario for a change of scenery and to make new friends.

HALIFAX — A weeks-long strike at a transshipment facility near Halifax is over after union members ratified a three-year collective agreement. More than 230 unionized workers at the CN Autoport facility in Eastern Passage, N.S.