Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the death toll.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.

MONTREAL — Police in three provinces arrested 46 men this week as part of an anti-child pornography operation.

MONCTON, N.B. — It could cost New Brunswick's Université de Moncton as much as $4.6 million to shed its connection to a colonial British officer who participated in the brutal deportation of French-speaking Acadians from Eastern Canada.

HALIFAX — Three students are facing charges after a fight outside a Halifax-area high school moved inside, where one of the teens allegedly sprayed some sort of irritant, prompting a three-hour lockdown.

BIG BRAS D'OR, N.S. — RCMP say a 25-year-old woman faces a murder charge in the death of a Cape Breton woman who was reported missing under suspicious circumstances last week. Carolyn Ann Dermody, of North Sydney, N.S.

HALIFAX — Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez says the ferry that operates between Digby, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., will not be moved to another route next year.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Police in Newfoundland say they've charged a priest with sexual assault.

HALIFAX — There's been another delay in the investigation to determine whether police in Nova Scotia broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of Glen Assoun, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1999 and served almost 17 years in pr

HALIFAX — An Indigenous fisherman appeared Thursday in a northern New Brunswick courtroom, where he began a constitutional challenge that could prove pivotal for First Nations across the Maritimes.