Atlantic News

GANDER, N.L. — A dental surgeon who allowed a correctional officer to extract four teeth from a sedated inmate in central Newfoundland was granted an absolute discharge by a Supreme Court judge on Tuesday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Crab fishing season has opened in most of Newfoundland and Labrador, but the union representing inshore harvesters says its members have left their boats tied up at the wharf.

GANDER, N.L. — An emotional astrophysicist struggled for words on Monday afternoon in Gander, N.L., after a total solar eclipse plunged the central Newfoundland community into darkness for more than two minutes.

HALIFAX — The former president of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party has lodged a complaint against the province's auditor general with the regulatory body for chartered professional accountants.

HALIFAX — A small Nova Scotia town that has struggled to tame its sometimes rowdy population of university students is considering advice from an unlikely source.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — There are many reasons a dozen people gathered two evenings a week this year in St. John's to build a traditional Newfoundland boat, bending and clamping long planks of wood and handling high-strength industrial glue.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative premier has joined a call from leaders across the country asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss carbon pricing.

FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick school district has gone to court to prevent the government from forcing it to apply the province's policy on gender identity for students.

HALIFAX — The first female Speaker of the Nova Scotia legislature is leaving politics.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia legislature wrapped up a spring sitting Friday that saw the Progressive Conservative government present a budget and pass just two bills. Since the sitting began on Feb.