Atlantic Canada News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — More than a dozen tenants were forced to flee an apartment building in western New Brunswick after someone poured a flammable liquid inside and threatened to set it on fire.

STEPHENVILLE, N.L. — Police have suspended for a week the licence of a 61-year-old Newfoundland cab driver who was stopped today for impaired driving while transporting a student to school. RCMP say a report came in at 8 a.m.

MONTREAL — A Quebec hunter had to be airlifted to hospital this week following what was described as a rare seal attack on a Nova Scotia island. Alexis Boudreault, 29, and nine other hunters were on Pictou Island Tuesday when the attack occurred.

KINGSTON, Ont. — An autopsy has been ordered following the death of a 22-year-old military reservist from New Brunswick whose remains were found in Ontario. The body of Pte.

FREDERICTON — A prominent economist says New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is doing the right thing in his efforts to increase immigration and grow the population.

BATHURST, N.B. — One man is dead and another is injured following a head-on snowmobile crash in northern New Brunswick. Police say a 55-year-old man from Bathurst was killed Thursday when two snowmobiles collided on a groomed trail in Sormany, N.B.

FREDERICTON — Premier Blaine Higgs says it's time to imagine a "new" New Brunswick, and he is setting goals to increase the population and grow the economy.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Sobeys will phase out plastic grocery bags across the country this week, but for many Atlantic Canadians the "Sobeys bag" will live on in their kitchen cupboards.

MONCTON, N.B. — RCMP in Moncton have dismantled what is believed to be an illegal cannabis oil extraction operation in the city.