Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Joan Clark, acclaimed Canadian author and Order of Canada recipient, has died. She was 88. Clark wrote more than 15 books for adults and children, including An Audience of Chairs, Latitudes of Melt and The Dream Carvers.

Canada's largest French-language university outside of Quebec has launched a process to review the school's connection to a British military figure involved in the deportation of Acadians.

DARTMOUTH, N.S. — One man is in hospital after an early morning stabbing at a Dartmouth hotel. Police were called to the parking lot of the Best Western just before 3 a.m. Sunday. When officers arrived, they found a 43-year-old man with stab wounds.

HALIFAX — Federal fisheries officials shut down the lucrative baby eel fishery in the Maritimes on Saturday amid growing concerns of illegal poaching and violence.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Hundreds of people were temporarily emptied out of a downtown St. John's hotel Friday afternoon after a chlorine gas leak in the facility's pool area, officials said.

HUBBARDS, N.S. — A man who police say was assaulted with a pipe is now facing a charge for uttering threats during an argument that occurred just before the alleged attack.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Though Muskrat Falls has weighed heavily on Newfoundland and Labrador's finances and residents' morale, reaction was surprisingly muted to an announcement this week that the project is finally considered to be in working order.

CHARLOTTETOWN — A tentative contract deal has been reached between the University of Prince Edward Island and striking members of its faculty association.

HUBBARDS, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia say they've charged two men after an attack early today in a small community on the southern outskirts of Halifax following an argument that involved fishing for baby eels.

UPPER NAPPAN, N.S. — A largely rural municipality in northern Nova Scotia is looking into replacing the RCMP as its local police force almost three years after a mass shooting claimed the lives of four residents.