Atlantic News

CHARLOTTETOWN — While construction continues on the University of Prince Edward Island’s new medical school, the leader of the opposition says Islanders deserve answers on how the school will affect an already strained health system. P.E.I.

HALIFAX — The federal and Atlantic provinces' housing ministers say they're looking at ways to boost factory-built housing for the East Coast, as the region's population keeps rising at a rapid pace.

HALIFAX — A pair of Nova Scotia Supreme Court rulings that say it is illegal to lock down inmates in provincial jails because of staffing shortages are being praised by an advocacy group as a victory for prisoner rights.

HALIFAX — Many Atlantic Canadians who were in the dark after this weekend’s messy winter storm have had their power restored as of Sunday afternoon.

IRISHTOWN, N.B. — An 18-year-old woman from Moncton, N.B. has died after a head-on collision that left seven others injured.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — A 42-year-old woman has died in Nova Scotia after her car hit a deer and then was struck from behind by a transport truck. The RCMP says the crash occurred Friday evening on Highway 104 in New Glasgow.

HALIFAX — Parts of Atlantic Canada are facing powerful blasts of wind and tidal surges along coastal areas as a storm sweeping in from the southeast moves through the region.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power is detailing how it wants to recover costs incurred due to massive damage from post-tropical storm Fiona, arguing it needs to receive almost $25 million from ratepayers over five years.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Saint John police Chief Robert Bruce has launched a review of his force's conduct in the wrongful murder convictions of two New Brunswick men.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A bomb threat that halted commercial flights Friday morning at the St. John's International Airport was not really a threat at all, police and airport officials said.