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• P.E.I. reports one new case of COVID-19 connected to daycare, all other children and staff test negative

  Prince Edward Island is reporting one new case of COVID-19 Saturday, involving an individual in their 20s who is a close contact of a previously announced case related to a Charlottetown daycare centre.

  

• N.B. municipal elections delayed as campaigns kick off in Edmundston area

  While New Brunswick’s municipal elections have been going on since Monday, campaigns are just kicking off in the Edmundston-Madawaska region, which just returned to the province’s yellow phase of recovery on Tuesday.

  

• N.L. police officer guilty of sexual assault in case that rocked St. John's for years

  A jury has found Newfoundland and Labrador police officer Carl Douglas Snelgrove guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in her home in 2014.

• 'I want to see those kids charged': Mother of second victim in Riverview, N.B. assault speaks out

  The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was one of the victims of a disturbing attack caught on video in Riverview, N.B. is speaking out.

• N.S. government granted injunction to stop anti-mask, anti-lockdown protests

  Premier Iain Rankin says he sought a court injunction to halt plans for an anti-mask rally scheduled to take place on Citadel Hill on Saturday.

• Ninth patient in non-COVID unit of Halifax hospital tests positive

  Nine people who were in the Halifax Infirmary's non-COVID unit are now fighting the virus after infection seeped into their section of the hospital.

• Canadian researchers work to determine authenticity of message in a bottle from passenger on the Titanic

  Canadian researchers are investigating the authenticity of a message in a bottle allegedly thrown from the Titanic two days before it sank.

• 'It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it'; price of building materials soars due to shortage

  Not only are prices soaring for some building materials, but some, such as drywall, are in short supply.

• N.B. health officials concerned about latest outbreaks in Fredericton region

  They're not calling it an outbreak, but New Brunswick Public Health has sent a risk management team to a Fredericton hotel after five COVID-19 cases were confirmed.

• Nova Scotians aged 35 to 39 now eligible for Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

  Nova Scotians aged 35 to 39 are now eligible to book appointments for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

• Halifax has already had almost as many shootings in 2021 as all of last year

  Eighteen shootings have occurred in the Halifax area so far this year -- nearly the same number that happened during all of last year.

• Downtown Halifax business fined for operating against regulations

  Police have charged a business in downtown Halifax for allegedly failing to follow regulations in the Health Protection Act.

• Man facing several charges after weapons, drugs seized from multiple locations in Dartmouth, N.S.

  A 26-year-old man is facing several weapons and drugs related charges following a number of searches conducted in Dartmouth, N.S. on Thursday.

• Fatal collision between pickup truck and motorcycle claims the life of N.B. man

  A Bertrand, N.B. man is dead following a collision between a pickup truck and a motorcycle in Esgenoôpetitj First Nation, N.B.

• P.E.I. reports two new cases of COVID-19, one connected to daycare case

  Prince Edward Island is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 Friday, including one related to the case at a Charlottetown daycare centre.

• Man charged with second-degree murder in Dartmouth shooting: Halifax Regional Police

  Police in Halifax have charged a man in relation to a shooting at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth on Wednesday evening.