Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Production at Cape Breton’s idled Donkin coal mine can’t resume until recommendations contained in a consultant’s report are implemented, says the Nova Scotia Labour Department.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's massive health-care redevelopment plan will cross a key milestone next week with the opening of an outpatient centre in suburban Halifax that is expected to treat 280,000 patients a year.

HALIFAX — A plan is now in place to create the kind of detailed flood plain maps that some of Nova Scotia's emergency managers have said they lacked when torrential flooding occurred in July.

HALIFAX — Better working conditions and more safety considerations are needed to ensure Nova Scotia can recruit and keep workers in its overstressed home-care sector, a pair of union leaders told a legislature committee Tuesday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Nearly a third of seniors in Canada's easternmost province can't afford basic necessities, including food, rent and medical supplies, a report by Newfoundland and Labrador's seniors' advocate has found.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is now projecting a $35.3-million surplus for the current fiscal year, a drop of $5 million from what it budgeted in March.

A 34-year-old Quebec man is dead after an off-road vehicle crashed over the weekend in northwestern New Brunswick. RCMP say three people were on an off-road vehicle that crashed and ended up in a ditch in Haut-Madawaska, N.B.

LOWER NEW ANNAN, P.E.I. — After 23 years in business, the owner of a popular campground in northwestern Prince Edward Island says he’s left with no option but to close permanently because of the damage caused last fall by post-tropical storm Fiona.

HALIFAX — As she stood outside her Halifax home recently and recalled the acrid smoke that filled the horizon last spring, Antoniella Assalone wondered whether she will have a safe escape route if another wildfire comes.

MIDDLE SACKVILLE, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia have charged a 41-year-old man with attempted murder following an alleged stabbing that left another man with life-threatening injuries.