Atlantic News

Wildfire smoke from the Prairies was forecast Sunday to fill many of the skies from Vancouver Island to Charlottetown with gritty, hazy dust.

Organizers behind a protest held at a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment say police action against Indigenous-owned cannabis dispensaries represents a continued attack on Mi’kmaq sovereignty.

HALIFAX — According to his Royal Canadian Air Force service records, 21-year-old Pilot Officer Bill Bennet was a fine airman.

HALIFAX — A 17-year-old Halifax-area boy has been sentenced 10 months in a youth detention centre for his role in the stabbing death of a high school student during a brawl over a girl.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia health officials say a child has been admitted to hospital because of measles. A news release from the province says the child is in stable condition at Halifax's IWK Health Centre.

HALIFAX — An independent monitor says Nova Scotia is making gradual progress in some aspects of its five-year plan to move people with disabilities out of institutions and off wait-lists for community housing.

CHARLOTTETOWN — It now costs less for drivers to cross the 12.9-kilometre Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to Canada's mainland. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week the toll for an average vehicle will drop from $50.

HANTSPORT — Glooscap First Nation in Nova Scotia is launching a seafood market with local products caught and processed by its members, as a way to keep profits in the community and help pay for services.

NEW-WES-VALLEY — The affordable housing complex Mike Tiller is hoping for is unlike anything else in his community.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Community College has officially opened the third of seven promised on-campus housing projects at its waterfront campus in Dartmouth. The $58.6 million student residence will house 200 students beginning in September.