Atlantic News

FREDERICTON — Much can be learned about the evolving habits of endangered North Atlantic right whales by tracing pieces of fishing gear from which the animals are freed, say researchers.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's power utility is under pressure to explain why tens of thousands of customers were without power over the weekend as an arctic air system blanketed the province and brought temperatures that felt as low as -45 C.

SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton University says it has reached a tentative agreement with its faculty union after a weeklong strike. Details of the proposed deal weren't immediately available, but the main bargaining issue had been wage increases.

HALIFAX — Cold weather alerts that blanketed eastern Canada for the past two days have largely lifted, but some Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers remain without power due to outages caused by the frigid temperatures and high winds.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is reassuring his party faithful that he still intends to fix the province's health-care system at whatever cost it takes.

HALIFAX — As an immense arctic air mass expanded over the eastern half of the country on Friday, Environment Canada issued an unusually long list of extreme cold warnings that covered six provinces — from Ontario to Newfoundland and Labrador.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Opposition is calling on the government to scrap the proposed French-language reform scheduled for schools in the fall.

HALIFAX — The lawyer for a former Liberal member of the Nova Scotia legislature says his client intends to plead guilty to a charge of impaired driving.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As rates of sexual assault climb across Canada, nursing experts say there is a shortage of specially trained forensic nurses to properly care for victims.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's utility regulator has defied the provincial government and approved an average 14 per cent increase in electricity rates over two years. Premier Tim Houston said last November that his government opposed the increase of 6.