Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Funeral directors across the country are warning grieving families about a trend of third-party websites republishing obituaries for profit.

HALIFAX — Toronto-based Postmedia Network Inc. has offered to purchase Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain for $1 million, according to a newly released monitor’s report. The offer is being recommended by KSV Restructuring Inc.

HALIFAX — The Nature Conservancy of Canada is encouraging Canadians to get outside and snap a photo or take footage of the nature around them.

HALIFAX — A week after shots were fired during a reunion of former residents of a historic Black community in Halifax, a teenager remains in hospital with a bullet in her body, and a local church has organized a "circle of lament.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Labrador man has lost his bid for a long-sought public hearing about his detainment by police in 2015 at a mental health hospital for a post he made on social media.

HALIFAX — Firefighters from the Maritimes are heading to Alberta to help battle the wildfires that have ravaged the Jasper area.

OTTAWA — Canada is a step closer to the final frontier after completing negotiations with the United States on an agreement with major implications for domestic space launches.

HALIFAX — With just over one month before the beginning of the school year, universities in Atlantic Canada are worried about the expected big drop in foreign student enrolment due to caps imposed by the federal government.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador’s Progressive Conservatives called Thursday for the removal of the chair of Memorial University's board of regents after he forwarded an alumna's pro-Palestinian campaign email to her father last month.

HALIFAX — More than four centuries of Acadian culture is being celebrated in Nova Scotia with the province’s first Acadian Heritage Month.