Atlantic News

HALIFAX — An expert report released Wednesday moves people with disabilities in Nova Scotia a step closer to the end of an era when many had to live in large institutions.

HALIFAX — Advance voters in an upcoming Nova Scotia byelection will be the first in Canada to use electronic ballots, provincial election officials say.

HALIFAX — In the coming days, the federal and Nova Scotia governments will face the first deadline for action recommended by the inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in Canadian history.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says his party's poor performance in Monday's three byelections is a sign of a deepening political divide along linguistic lines in the province.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As a standoff between crab fishers and processors enters its third week in Newfoundland and Labrador, all eyes are on Maritime fishers who have begun their annual harvest.

HALIFAX — Photographs have been released showing people fishing for baby eels in Nova Scotia despite the federal government's recent decision to shut down the contentious fishery.

MONTREAL — Quebec's electric utility says hundreds of thousands of customers were temporarily without power Tuesday due to a problem at the Churchill Falls generating station in Labrador.

HALIFAX — Sandra Page wonders how the Nova Scotia government expects her to remain healthy after its recent budget froze welfare payments despite more than a year of high inflation.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Liberal Leader Susan Holt has been elected to the legislature for the first time, winning a riding in the province's northeast considered safe for her party.

HALIFAX — Hockey Nova Scotia has a new executive director. Mike Field has been appointed to the position after serving as interim director since December, replacing Amy Walsh. A native of Truro, N.S.