Atlantic News

STEWIACKE, N.S. — A dispute over a cowbell led to a fracas Saturday at a hockey rink in central Nova Scotia, where the RCMP were told a coach had assaulted a referee during a game involving nine- and 10-year-old players.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Inuit Nunatsiavut government has pulled out of meetings with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, citing concerns about the inclusion of an unrecognized group self-identifying as Indigenous.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government launched an effort Monday to review policing services in the province, after concerted cries from community groups to reform the profession and the systems that hold officers accountable.

HALIFAX — Marking Transgender Day of Remembrance is especially important this year amid rising incidents of violence and hatred, the founder of a Nova Scotia-based advocacy group said Monday.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is expanding its revamp of the long-term care sector, adding thousands more care rooms to address increasing demands from a growing — and aging — population.

HALIFAX — Israel must continue waging war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip until the organization's military capacity is destroyed, one of the country's former prime ministers said Saturday, despite the fact the mounting civilian death toll in the con

HALIFAX — The war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East are the result of a breakdown in international law in an increasingly dangerous and violent world, Defence Minister Bill Blair told a global security conference Friday.

FREDERICTON — Ripples from the installation of a giant statue of a sandpiper in a New Brunswick village keep coming, this time landing a councillor in hot water.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — The federal government is backing a massive wind-powered hydrogen project in Nova Scotia with a $125-million loan. Sean Fraser, federal minister of housing, infrastructure and communities, was in Port Hawkesbury, N.S.

CHERRY BROOK, N.S. — The federal government announced today $2.25 million in funding to honour the legacy of No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s only all-Black unit to serve during the First World War.