Atlantic News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Harold Butler scrolled through a long playlist glowing on his iPhone screen in his spacious taxi, which was parked on a downtown street in St. John's, N.L., on a recent rainy night. Flo Rida? Not now.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A tent fire has claimed the lives of two people in New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — Notorious Nova Scotia crime figure B.J. Marriott has been designated a dangerous offender and will be locked up indefinitely — a decision his lawyer intends to challenge.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge approved a process Monday aimed at finding buyers or investors willing to bid on SaltWire Network Inc. and The Halifax Herald Ltd., the two companies that operate Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper enterprise.

HALIFAX — Lives could be put at risk if the Nova Scotia government doesn't maintain limits on who can access sensitive medical information about patients, a sexual assault survivor told a legislature committee on Monday. Carrie Smith, of Digby, N.S.

FREDERICTON — A former two-term Progressive Conservative member of Parliament is seeking the New Brunswick Liberal party nomination to take on a Christian television host who he says is pushing the province's Tories to the fringes of right-wing polit

HALIFAX — The mother of a nine-year-old boy says packaging that depicts highly potent cannabis as a "treat" led her son and several classmates at a Halifax school to consume them and become violently ill earlier this week.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A fisherman who led protests this week that shut down the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature says he has reached a deal with the government to make it easier for harvesters to earn a living.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge approved Friday an extension to a court order protecting Atlantic Canada's largest media company from a long list of creditors owed more than $90 million.

HALIFAX — A provincial health-care renovation project that has drawn pointed criticism from Nova Scotia’s auditor general is being turned over to a private company.