Atlantic News

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. — He may not have logged the fastest time or even gone the full distance, but residents of a Newfoundland town agree the goat who unexpectedly joined the local weekend half marathon was the event's undisputed champion.

MONCTON, N.B. — Amelio Santini scored the game's first goal and assisted on the last one as the visiting Halifax Mooseheads defeated the Moncton Wildcats 4-1 in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A mother in a community where the cost of living is one of the highest in the country says grocery prices are “inhumane” and retailers are putting profits ahead of people’s basic human right to food.

FREDERICTON — David Coon is in his fourth election campaign as leader of New Brunswick’s Green Party, but he says this race feels different.

CHARLOTTETOWN — The visiting Saint John Sea Dogs scored three unanswered goals in the first period en route to a 6-2 victory against the Charlottetown Islanders in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Friday at the Eastlink Centre.

HALIFAX — A 17-year-old boy who stabbed two staff members at a Halifax-area high school last year doesn't need to serve anymore jail time and instead should be given two years of probation, a Nova Scotia youth court judge ruled Friday.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is accusing the Liberals of plagiarizing portions of his party's election platform.

HALIFAX — In what's become a September pattern in Nova Scotia politics, the province's finance minister is again projecting a bigger deficit than estimated in the spring budget.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be travelling to France next Thursday to attend the Francophonie summit. The meeting of French-speaking countries, which happens every two years, will be held on Oct. 4 and 5 in Villers-Cotterêts and Paris.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Public health officials in P.E.I. say more than 550 people have experienced symptoms of gastrointestinal illness after an outbreak of norovirus was detected at a shellfish festival last weekend.