Atlantic News

SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Manitoba's Kadriana and Colton Lott repeated as Canadian mixed doubles curling champions Friday with a 9-8 extra-end victory over Nova Scotia's Marlee Powers and Luke Saunders. The Lotts, a husband-and-wife team from Gimli, Man.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is proposing a free-trade zone for goods and services within Atlantic Canada to help the region withstand United States' tariffs.

HALIFAX — The fishing season for baby eels is set to begin in the Maritimes, but at least one First Nation says it won't abide by federal rules that limit the lucrative catch.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change .

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia still hasn’t signed on to the federal government’s pharmacare plan, and the province’s Opposition New Democrats are wondering why.

HALIFAX — The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is responding to critics by amending key parts of its legislative agenda, including its bill to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says China’s 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian seafood products are "concerning and significant.

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has introduced a bill to terminate an "unfair" contract for private nursing services.