Atlantic News

Gardening is always hands on, but Mary Parker is babying her plants a little longer than usual this spring.

TROIS-RIVIÈRES — Quebec provincial police say they've arrested three people in connection with a luxury car fraud ring across five provinces.

ST. JOHN'S — A judge has ordered parishioners in southeastern Newfoundland to hand over their church so it can be sold to pay survivors of sexual abuse.

CHARLOTTETOWN — A new survey says a majority of Prince Edward Island residents are generally satisfied with policing in their communities, but many said they are unhappy with the way officers respond to specific societal problems.

ST. JOHN'S — Elections Canada says results are expected Friday in a federal election vote recount in central Newfoundland and Labrador. The judicial recount in the Terra Nova—The Peninsulas riding began May 12 in Marystown, N.L.

ST. JOHN'S — A Newfoundland community that bills itself as the smallest town in Canada will soon be empty, and former residents say they'll never forget their joyful years living there. Tilt Cove, N.L.

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador author Michael Crummey has won this year’s Dublin Literary Award. Crummey’s winning book, “The Adversary,” is the winner of the prestigious prize, which is worth 100,000 euros or roughly $156,420.

Medicine Hat Tigers phenom Gavin McKenna headlines a stacked field at this year’s Memorial Cup. The top competition in Canadian junior hockey runs Friday through June 1 in Rimouski, Que.

HALIFAX — A heritage preservation group in Halifax is applauding a court decision that prevents Dalhousie University from demolishing a 128-year-old house registered as a heritage site in 2022.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia and New Brunswick’s attempt to persuade a panel of judges to conclude Ottawa has responsibility for the infrastructure on the Chignecto Isthmus is a “waste and abuse” of the court’s time, a federal lawyer argued Wednesday.