Atlantic News

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's budget surplus has risen by more than $200 million after the government collected more money than anticipated in income and sales tax and federal transfers.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A brawny nor'easter dumped up to 37 centimetres of snow on Nova Scotia on Wednesday before trudging to Newfoundland, where the wind picked up and a swirling snowfall enveloped much of the province.

HALIFAX — Capital spending in Nova Scotia remains at a record level, although provincial Finance Minister Allan MacMaster says he doesn’t envision the government’s funding allocation growing larger in the future.

HALIFAX — Canada's fisheries minister says she wants to shut down this year's lucrative baby eel fishery with only weeks to go before the season opens in the Maritimes.

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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s auditor general is calling the province’s $34.5-million purchase of an unfinished hotel to convert it into a health facility an “unusual arrangement” that lacked appropriate due diligence.

Halifax's long-serving mayor says he won't run in the municipal election this fall, explaining that he wants to depart the job while he's still capable of winning at the ballot box.

HALIFAX — Another nor'easter is headed for Atlantic Canada, bringing a second big dump of snow in less than two weeks.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland folk musician says the company behind the “derogatory” use of a cherished Newfoundland and Labrador song in an advertisement that played during Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast should apologize to the province.

HALIFAX — The son of a Cape Breton woman injured last week in a propane explosion caused by sliding snow says his mother has died.