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'I'm just in shock': Fire at Dartmouth scrap metal business out; air quality improves

A section of Dartmouth's Burnside Industrial Park was shut down Friday after a fire in a scrapyard triggered alerts and air quality warnings.

Fire at a business in Dartmouth, N.S., on May 20, 2022. (Jim Kvammen/CTV)

Kalin's Call: Warmer temperatures, risk of thunderstorms expected for long weekend

Some warmer temperatures are expected for the Maritimes during the upcoming May long weekend. With that, however, brings a few rounds of showers with a risk of thunderstorms.

A photo taken by Elisha Lake in Big Island, N.S. shows a thunderstorm in May 2021. (SOURCE: Elisha Lake)

Costs reach $25.6 million for public inquiry into 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia

The public inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass shooting has already cost $25.6 million to investigate the April 18-19, 2020, rampage -- and there are still about five months remaining in its mandate.

Commissioners Leanne Fitch, Michael MacDonald, chair, and Kim Stanton, left to right, look on as retired RCMP Staff. Sgt. Steve Halliday provides testimony about the RCMP's command post, operational communications centre and command decisions at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Dartmouth, N.S. on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)

P.E.I. to lift COVID-19 masking order in schools, daycares on Monday

Prince Edward Island is ending its pandemic-related mask mandates on Monday for K-12 schools, school buses, early learning centres and child-care facilities.

N.B. minister says Chantel Moore inquest recommendations being sent to police forces for review

New Brunswick’s minister of public safety said Friday morning that the recommendations on policing that have come out of the Chantel Moore coroner’s inquest will be reviewed by municipal police forces across the province over the next six months.

'We're excited': Businesses optimistic with return of CAT Ferry service

Passengers on The CAT ferry were greeted with a warm welcome as they arrived in Yarmouth Thursday night.

Calls for compassion following firey Moncton town hall on crime, homelessness

There were a lot of angry voices at Thursday night’s town hall meeting on crime and homelessness in Moncton.

Lawsuit alleges Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer raped off-duty colleague

A Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer has launched a civil suit against the province, alleging she was raped by a colleague in 2014 after he offered her a ride home from a night of drinking.

Former RCMP officers weigh in on N.S. Mass Casualty Commission testimony

As a former undercover RCMP officer and depot instructor, Calvin Lawrence has a blunt assessment of the RCMP response to Nova Scotia’s April 2020 massacre.