Atlantic News

CHARLOTTETOWN — Halifax-based alt-pop duo Neon Dreams has won album of the year at the 2024 East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Two more women have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted by an on-duty member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who offered them rides home from a night of drinking.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s public works minister says that after a review by her department, the province will be keeping its current motor vehicle inspection requirement in place.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A Cape Breton man who had a collection of police uniforms, patches and hats has pleaded guilty to a charge under the province's Police Identity Management Act.

HALIFAX — A fourth teen is facing a charge of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Halifax high school student.

Halifax Regional Police say they have arrested a man who was the subject of an emergency alert and believed to be armed and dangerous.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada were in St. John's, N.L., Wednesday after a plane overshot the main runway at the city's airport.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Police in Charlottetown say they have arrested one of Canada’s most wanted fugitives in connection with a murder last summer in Toronto. Thirty-five-year-old Michael Bebee was arrested Tuesday at a business in the provincial capital.

HALIFAX — An independent committee has released its first report on how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, but it does not offer any assessment of the progress made so far.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Richard Martin is spending this year's fishing season on land after he says a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer broke his left leg in three places during a protest last month that shut down the provincial legislature.