Atlantic News

SACKVILLE — A 36-year-old man has been arrested after a marked RCMP patrol car was stolen in New Brunswick and driven across the provincial border into Nova Scotia. RCMP Sgt. Pierre-Luc Haché says the incident began unfolding around 2:30 p.m.

MAIN BROOK — Breanna Bromley-Clarke may be the sole graduate of her all-grades school on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, but her prom helped bring many in her community together.

LANSDOWNE STATION — Officials are planning air and ground searches today for two Nova Scotia children who have been missing for over two weeks.

ST. JOHN'S — Summer is approaching and teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador are worried many of their students will spend their holiday months hungry without school lunch programs to offer a meal, says Trent Langdon.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue.

ST. JOHN'S — A long weekend looms with no decision yet in a federal election vote recount in the central Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova–The Peninsulas. The judicial recount began Monday in Marystown, N.L.

HALIFAX — Halifax Wanderers will play Wrexham AFC in a three-game under-21 series in July in Atlantic Canada. The series will kick off July 5 at the Wanderers Grounds in Halifax before moving to Charlottetown on July 9 and Saint John, N.B.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's police watchdog is awaiting word on whether another oversight agency will investigate potential police misconduct in the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun — five years after a probe was promised.

HALIFAX — The minister responsible for Nova Scotia’s rental property rules says her department won’t crack down on instances of abuse involving fixed-term rent leases because it doesn’t want to affect the housing supply.

ST. JOHN — The police force in Saint John, N.B., said Thursday that it has charged one of its officers with assault.