Atlantic News

New Brunswick and much of Prince Edward Island are expected to be hit with ice pellets and freezing rain beginning Monday morning. The messy weather comes as an ice storm that left hundreds of thousands without power in parts of Ontario moves east.

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — RCMP in New Brunswick say a 27-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle crash in St. George. Police say they responded to a report of a crash on Highway 1 around 3:15 a.m. Saturday.

FREDERICTON — Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction.

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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s lucrative seafood industry is bracing for market upheaval as it deals with the effects of tariffs imposed by China and awaits an identical 25 per cent duty from the United States.

MONCTON, N.B. — Julius Sumpf scored his second goal at 1:38 in overtime as the Moncton Wildcats edged the Quebec Remparts 4-3 in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs on Friday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Education officials in Newfoundland and Labrador recently ordered the destruction of thousands of textbooks because they contained inaccurate information about the province's Indigenous population.

HALIFAX — Mi’kmaw chiefs in Nova Scotia say they are considering legal action against newly passed provincial legislation that opens the door to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

HALIFAX — Demand for cottages and recreational properties in Nova Scotia should remain strong despite the doubling of the province’s deed transfer tax, says an executive with a major real estate agency.

VANCOUVER — In one corner of the battle are criminals using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material — and in the other, AI is being used to help hunt down the offenders.