Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Following an extraordinary reversal by Premier Tim Houston, the Nova Scotia legislature on Thursday adopted a bill declaring domestic violence an epidemic in the province.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's opposition parties say they can't understand why the government insists the province doesn't need an enforcement unit to help settle disputes between landlords and tenants.

WALTON, N.S. — Four boxcars filled with concrete are sitting on the floor of the Bay of Fundy near Walton, N.S., where residents are worried the debris — abandoned by another failed tidal power project — has become a hazard to local fishers.

STELLARTON, N.S. — Empire Co. Ltd. says it earned $207.8 million in its latest quarter, down from $261 million a year ago as its sales edged higher.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it could be months before it reveals how many people are on the wait-list for a family doctor.

FREDERICTON — Interactions between Indigenous people and law enforcement "too frequently" end in violence or death, say the six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick in reaction to the recent killing of a Mi’kmaq man by a Mountie conductin

HALIFAX — Emergency response times across Nova Scotia, which had risen steadily in recent years, are improving, says the head of the province’s ambulance service.

PEGGY'S COVE — Japneet Singh, a security patroller at Nova Scotia's famed Peggy's Cove — a longtime treasure of Atlantic Canada’s coastline southwest of Halifax — is no stranger to the perils of the sea.

MONCTON, N.B. — Officials with New Brunswick's Justice Department say they have made the "largest" seizure of illegal cannabis ever in Atlantic Canada.

The recent fatal shooting of an Indigenous man by a New Brunswick Mountie offers a chilling reminder of two separate incidents in 2020 when police officers in the province fatally shot Indigenous people in distress.