Atlantic News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A crew member of a Canadian Coast Guard ship has been lost at sea off southern Newfoundland. The agency said in a release Wednesday that an extensive search and rescue effort for the man was ended Tuesday evening.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s NDP are accusing the government of prioritizing landlords over residents who need an affordable place to live, as the opposition party tables a bill aimed at addressing the housing crisis.

HALIFAX — Transport Canada has ordered a bankrupt tidal power company and a bankruptcy trustee to produce a plan to remove four huge moorings abandoned in the water near Walton, N.S.

FREDERICTON — The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick distributed a survey on Indigenous issues to political parties ahead of the provincial election, which is scheduled to kick off Thursday.

FREDERICTON — Grant Jordan was driving to a friend's house on Aug. 31 when he started feeling tightness in his chest. He immediately returned home and asked his wife, Naomi, to take him to the hospital, a five-minute drive away.

HALIFAX — A prisoner rights group is calling on the Nova Scotia government to pass a law requiring independent monitoring of the province's jails.

HALIFAX — The commander of the RCMP in Nova Scotia says the province’s implementation of a set of new standards will help improve policing across the province.

HALIFAX — Federal cabinet ministers are threatening to pull an offer of $325 million to protect a vital land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick unless the two provinces agree to share costs.

HALIFAX — Two men have been charged in connection with what Halifax police now say is the murder of a 16-year-old who went missing two years ago.

ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Mila Mulroney has been named the 11th chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, the alma mater of her husband, former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Brian Mulroney died Feb. 29 at the age of 84.