Atlantic News

HALIFAX — There's been a surge in the number of Nova Scotians with complex disabilities stuck in temporary housing, according to recent figures released by the province.

ALBANY, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — Tolls on the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to Canada's mainland will drop sharply starting Aug. 1, along with several other Atlantic travel fees, the prime minister said Monday.

DEER LAKE — RCMP say two men died in a plane crash over the weekend in western Newfoundland. Police say the only people aboard the plane — a 54-year-old pilot and a 27-year-old passenger — were pronounced dead at the scene in Deer Lake.

DEER LAKE — The Transportation Safety Board has sent investigators to the site of a plane crash in western Newfoundland after a small plane crashed Saturday afternoon.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Black community is including safety measures at a reunion of former residents of a historic community in Halifax, one year after a shooting during the event.

OTTAWA — Olivia Scott scored her second goal this season as Ottawa Rapid FC defeated Halifax Tides FC 1-0 on Friday night in the Northern Super League.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge imposed a publication ban Friday on testimony for the sentencing hearing of a 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Halifax high school student.

ST. JOHN'S — Residents of Musgrave Harbour, N.L., can go home, nearly a week after a nearby wildfire triggered an evacuation. Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Justice and Public Safety says the order to flee has ended, effective immediately.

FREDERICTON — Two of the four Atlantic provinces are dealing with active measles outbreaks.

ST. JOHN'S — A sailor was rescued at sea on Wednesday after he set out from Quebec on a solo journey to Greenland and then went missing off the southeast coast of Labrador.