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• Newfoundland and Labrador reports four new COVID-19 cases, first hospital outbreak

  Newfoundland and Labrador health authorities reported four new cases of COVID-19 today, as well as the province's first outbreak at a hospital.

  

• Parents of missing N.S. boy go to court to allege cruel cyberbullying

  The parents of a three-year-old Nova Scotia boy who went missing last spring are taking the alleged administrators of a social media chat site to court, arguing that accusations and insults posted there are cyberbullying.

  

• Horizon Health to review what happened the day teen sought mental health help at Fredericton ER

  New Brunswick’s largest health network says it will review what happened the day 16-year-old Lexi Daken waited in an emergency room for over eight hours to see a psychiatrist – and never saw one.

• RCMP: 17 guns, cash found hidden inside wall, 68-year-old arrested

  The New Brunswick RCMP says it has found 17 unsecured long guns, along with a "large amount of money" inside a home's wall in the Tobique First Nation, N.B.

• Halifax transit union questions why drivers aren't getting mass testing after exposures on many routes

  With more COVID-19 cases being announced in the Halifax area, transit workers are wondering why a pop-up testing site dedicated to them isn't being set up.

• Maritimers face rising prices at pumps, partly caused by Texas blizzard

  Maritimers who didn't get a chance to fill up their vehicles with gas on Thursday faced a jump in the price at the pumps on Friday.

• Online learning option may be here to stay for some N.S. universities

  Some Maritime post-secondary schools say online learning may be here to stay even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

• Cape Breton man gets emotional after reunion with long-lost guitar

  A man in Cape Breton, N.S. has been reunited with one of his guitars that was stolen almost 20 years ago when his home was broken into.

• N.B. RCMP arrest two people in Shediac related to drug investigation

  The New Brunswick RCMP has arrested two people and seized a "substantial amount" of money, various types of drugs, and prohibited weapons as part of an ongoing drug investigation that began in December 2020.

• Desmond inquiry: psychiatrist says former soldier's suspicions were almost delusional

  An inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Friday from a psychiatrist who said there was an aspect of Lionel Desmond's life he could not figure out.

• Serious crash closes Highway 101 near Wolfville, N.S.

  There was a serious crash on Highway 101 Friday near Wolfville, N.S.

• Halifax airport hopes to follow Charlottetown’s lead with rapid testing project

  Halifax Stanfield International Airport could soon be following the Charlottetown Airport by launching a COVID-19 rapid testing project.

• Committee of Fredericton City Hall creates new terms for city's poet laureate

  A committee at Fredericton City Hall has come up with new terms for what's expected from the city's poet laureate.

• Acadian group backs appointment of judge, educator to New Brunswick language review

  New Brunswick has appointed a provincial court judge and a former deputy education minister to oversee a review of the province's Official Languages Act.

• RCMP offers tips to protect against online marketplace scams

  According to police, the scams sometimes happen to a victim who posts an ad online; the suspect pretends to be a buyer, asks the victim to ship the item promising payment to follow, but never pays after they get the item in the mail.

• Support from near and far brightens spirits of family grieving after barn fire

  The owners of a Cape Breton goat farm where most of the animals have been killed in a fire says community support has them thinking about rebuilding.