Atlantic News

MONTREAL — A Quebec Innu community is suing Hydro-Québec for $2.2-billion, claiming the Churchill Falls hydroelectric station has destroyed a significant part of its traditional territory.

HALIFAX — A home once owned by Nova Scotia's first Black doctor was granted heritage status Tuesday after prominent members of the city's Black community lobbied for its protection.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A woman is accused of stealing people's identities to work in long-term care homes in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says 43-year-old Lisa Driscoll fraudulently obtained nursing positions in St.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island potato farmers say a new report on potato wart shows the 2021 decision to halt exports to the United States went too far, and they want remaining restrictions lifted for farms where the soil-borne fungus has not b

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia-based rapper Classified and Prince Edward Island pop-folk trio The East Pointers lead the nominations for the 35th East Coast Music Awards, with six each.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Nearly 12 hours after an emergency sitting began in Newfoundland and Labrador's legislature, the government passed a bill that sent striking first responders back to work.

HALIFAX — The man behind Canada’s first commercial spaceport says the facility in northeastern Nova Scotia could see its first suborbital test launch sometime early this summer.

HALIFAX — Prominent members of Nova Scotia's Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province's first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.

HALIFAX — Sunwing airlines has reduced its flight schedules from three airports in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — People in parts of Eastern Newfoundland got a good workout Sunday morning shoveling out from knee-deep snow.