Atlantic News

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he is not going anywhere, despite dissent earlier this year from within his Progressive Conservative party.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The mayor of Saint John, N.B., says a fire at a metal recycling plant has been contained and the citywide shelter-in-place advisory is now lifted.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A notice asking residents in some parts of Saint John, N.B., to stay indoors Thursday was expanded to include the entire city as a fire at a metal recycling yard along the harbour sent plumes of hazardous smoke into the air.

HALIFAX — Residents of the Maritimes are being warned to prepare for damaging winds, large waves, flooding and power outages as hurricane Lee is expected to transform into a large, powerful post-tropical storm Saturday after entering Canadian waters.

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.