Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s plan to increase the provincial role of the RCMP is being questioned by some mayors who say they are wary of the implications for their municipal police forces.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island is reporting two cases of measles in unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people.

SUSSEX — A police watchdog is investigating two New Brunswick RCMP officers who allegedly tried to influence an impaired driving case.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia government ministers say they will meet with a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, although they remain tight-lipped on the panel's findings, which were submitted a year ago.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's minister of public works says it will be "several years" until construction begins to protect a low-lying strip of land that links the province to New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's governing Progressive Conservatives outpaced their rivals in fundraising last year, though the NDP had more individual donors.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax are looking for a woman accused of assaulting a man days before he died at an encampment for homeless people.

ST. JOHN'S — A new audit of Newfoundland and Labrador's contracts with private travel nurse agencies has flagged overpayments by the provincial health authority, questionable invoices and possible fraud.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says only 60 tenants signed leases with landlords through a program that cost taxpayers $1.35 million over two years.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it is considering a larger role for the RCMP as the province restructures and modernizes policing services.