Atlantic Canada News

FREDERICTON — The Parole Board of Canada has denied a request from the former president of the Saint John chapter of the Bacchus Motorcycle Club to move out of a community correctional centre, despite his concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting no new positive cases of COVID-19, marking nearly two weeks without a new case. Dr.

FREDERICTON — The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is implementing the first season-long fishing closure of the year after North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

FREDERICTON — Teachers in New Brunswick will return to their classrooms starting the first week of June, but there won't be any students there with them.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is reporting no new cases of COVID-19. The province has not had a new case in almost two weeks. The number of confirmed cases in the province remains at 120. There are no active cases, and everyone has recovered.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 for the 12th day in a row. In numbers released today, the province has confirmed 260 cases of the illness including 250 recoveries and three deaths.

WEST LAKE AINSLIE, Canada — RCMP in Cape Breton say a 57-year-old man is dead after a crash involving an all-terrain vehicle. Police say the incident occurred Friday evening near a home on Cameron Road in West Lake Ainslie, N.S.

FREDERICTON — Fishermen began setting traps Friday as the spring lobster season opened across much of the Maritimes, but processors in New Brunswick warn they'll be turning some lobster away because of a shortage of workers.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's spring flood season has officially come to an end without the major flooding seen in the province over the last couple of years. After 10 weeks in operation, the River Watch Program for the 2020 season is now over.

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