Atlantic Canada

The leaders of Canada's provinces and territories are set to compare notes on how to handle the rules when the federal government legalizes recreational use of cannabis next July.

Fewer of North America's Atlantic salmon are making it back to rivers to spawn, which bodes poorly for the future of the imperiled fish, an international conservation group says.

With its long ribbon of sandy shores, New Brunswick's Parlee Beach is one of the top tourist draws in Atlantic Canada, boasting the warmest salt water in Canada.

After nearly four decades in the workforce, 64-year-old Louise Plouffe is looking ahead to retirement. But Tristan Plummer, 23, is looking for work.

Canada's oldest independent newspaper — whose newsroom has been on strike for over a year — has bought all of Transcontinental Media's newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

Atlantic Canadian premiers pledged co-operation to grow the region's clean energy sector, following a meeting today, April 12, 2017, in Saint John, N.B.

Atlantic Canadians need to start planning for dramatic changes in the sea level by the end of the century, a new federal government project says.

With this move, the federal Liberals and their provincial associates demonstrated their tone-deafness to modern currents of populism in a way that could bode poorly for Canada's political future.

Under the plan, the government will accept up to 2,000 immigrant applications in 2017, with increased numbers in the following years depending on performance.

In Halifax, overnight conditions went from virtually no snow cover to 41 cm by Tuesday morning. Autistic amateur weatherman and YouTube favourite called it, very accurately.

As expected, Atlantic Canada took to the polls Monday night, voting overwhelmingly for the Liberals. But does it signal a win?

Innu First Nations claim their rights have been violated for six decades and are claiming $900 million in compensation.

A dissatisfaction with Harper and his policies are pushing people to vote Liberal in Atlantic Canada.

According to figures published in 2014, humans have accelerated the rate of extinction by roughly 1,000 times what it would naturally be.