Atlantic News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — One year after a wave driven by post-tropical storm Fiona slammed into the back of her house and twisted it like a corkscrew, Lori Dicks now lives up on a hill, far from the water.

FREDERICTON — Community groups in New Brunswick are coming together to help more than 100 people in Fredericton who fled a burning apartment building last Thursday.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is expanding a fast-tracked immigration program to include international students who want to become paramedics and pharmacy technicians, in its latest move to address health worker shortages.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Communities hit last year by post-tropical storm Fiona can access $9 million in federal funding to help bolster facilities that can offer refuge to residents affected by the next big storm.

HALIFAX — Vaughn Mullen has grown weary of Nova Scotia Power's promises for improvement, as fall hurricane season brings lengthy power outages he feels could be avoided.

HALIFAX — The RCMP's promise to apologize for street checks that targeted Black people is being welcomed by the new African Nova Scotian Affairs minister, but she says she is more interested in what it will mean for future police conduct.

SYDNEY, N.S. — It's a battle in the skies — and so far, the bombing cormorants sowing scatological havoc in a Nova Scotia harbour are winning. For the second year, cormorants have squatted in the Sydney, N.S., harbour for their nesting season.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will remove the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax from the construction of new rental apartment buildings, Premier Tim Houston said Thursday.

HALIFAX — An environmental group has concluded that about 2,300 lobster boats operating off Nova Scotia are suitable candidates to switch from diesel to electric motor, a change that would slash the industry's emissions.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Investigators have been unable to establish what caused the fatal crash of a small plane near a Labrador airport last year because data from the aircraft's final minute in the air was destroyed on impact.