Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia-based rapper Classified and Prince Edward Island pop-folk trio The East Pointers lead the nominations for the 35th East Coast Music Awards, with six each.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Nearly 12 hours after an emergency sitting began in Newfoundland and Labrador's legislature, the government passed a bill that sent striking first responders back to work.

HALIFAX — The man behind Canada’s first commercial spaceport says the facility in northeastern Nova Scotia could see its first suborbital test launch sometime early this summer.

HALIFAX — Prominent members of Nova Scotia's Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province's first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.

HALIFAX — Sunwing airlines has reduced its flight schedules from three airports in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — People in parts of Eastern Newfoundland got a good workout Sunday morning shoveling out from knee-deep snow.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador called Saturday for an emergency debate about an ongoing ambulance strike which some mayors say is already affecting patients.

FREDERICTON — The impending closure of two New Brunswick special care homes announced this week by the province is sparking fears that vulnerable residents will be moved away and face a lonely winter far from their families.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's highest court has ordered a new trial for a Cape Breton man accused of impaired driving, reckless driving causing death and leaving the scene of a collision that killed a 10-year-old girl.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A man in Newfoundland has been arrested for damaging floodlights at the centre of a dispute in a historic fishing village on the St. John's waterfront.