Atlantic News

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's police oversight agency is investigating a man's death in Corner Brook on Christmas morning.

WHITESIDE, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia say they are investigating a two-vehicle collision that left three adults and four children with serious to life-threatening injuries.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Nova Scotia police say two people have died in a New Glasgow house fire. New Glasgow Regional Police say they responded to a report of blaze on Pleasant Street on Saturday around 1 p.m., and found the home full of fire and smoke.

EAST INGLISVILLE, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia say a 24-year-old Annapolis County man has died in a single-vehicle crash. The crash was reported around 5 a.m. Sunday in East Inglisville.

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — This year, Dave Rowe, owner of a decades-old music store in St. John's, N.L., found himself in a peculiar yet pressing situation: he was out of ugly sticks, and the man who made them was retiring.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Two New Brunswick men whose murder convictions in 1984 were quashed Friday by the federal justice minister will appear before a court next month to see if a new trial will proceed, a director with Innocence Canada said.

More than 5,000 people were still without power in western New Brunswick late Saturday afternoon, five days after a vicious wind storm tore down power lines and left more than 100,000 people in the dark.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — In an improbable confluence of geopolitical strife, childhood wonder and salty air, a Ukrainian watchmaker has repaired a 118-year-old town clock in eastern Newfoundland that hadn't told time in decades.

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani announced Friday that he has ordered a new trial for two New Brunswick men convicted of a murder nearly 40 years ago.