Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government released a housing plan Monday that it says will help address a projected shortage of 41,000 homes by 2028.

HALIFAX — The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales appears to be stabilizing after years of discouraging declines, according to new data released Monday by an international team of marine scientists.

FORT LAWRENCE, N.S. — Three people, including an infant, have died in a highway collision between an SUV and a car in Nova Scotia’s Cumberland County.

HALIFAX — They call themselves the "Dahn lab" graduates, and they're powering an unlikely, Halifax-based research hub for batteries designed to replace fossil fuels.

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.