Atlantic Canada

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant says his province has some big challenges to tackle in the months leading up to a provincial election this fall, and beyond.

Tesla Inc. is building fast-charging stations for its electric vehicles in Atlantic Canada, opening up the East Coast to road trippers with the California automaker's high-end plug-in cars.

Canada loses 20 times more forested land to fires and invasive bugs each year than it does to harvesting wood for industry — and Canada's lumber association says climate change is making it worse.

A key ally of Donald Trump says Canadians should understand the U.S. president believes in free trade, and they shouldn't read too much into what they hear.

The largest mammals in the sea may face an existential threat: At least 13 North Atlantic right whales have been found dead off the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England.

After more than a year of wooing western Canadian shale gas producers, a Nova Scotia project is finally getting some attention.

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.