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The P.E.I. Liquor Control Commission plans to end the use of disposable plastic bags at its stores this fall.

Cancer patients from the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon, off the south coast of Newfoundland, say they were the last to know about breast cancer testing mistakes in the labs of Eastern Health.

A 16-year-old girl was killed early Friday morning when she apparently tried to cross Highway 401 on foot.

Hundreds of people gathered in Cole Harbour Thursday night to thank firefighters, police and other emergency workers who battled the Porters Lake fire last month, the biggest forest fire in an urban area in Nova Scotia in 30 years.

A 15-metre-long whale that beached near Rockport, N.B., on Chignecto Bay was buried Thursday in a forested area just up from the beach in Slack's Cove.

The B.C. transportation minister says Vancouver police should learn from their counterparts in San Francisco how to handle people disrupting traffic on busy bridges.

A Quebec daycare worker accused of shaking a baby boy who suffered brain damage has been acquitted of aggravated assault.

Divers will attempt to recover a body found Thursday night in North Vancouver's Lynn Creek by a group searching for Andrew Koch.

The federal government will begin consulting with experts across the country next week on controversial legislation passed to speed immigration applications by giving officials the power of selecting which ones to fast track.

In a small change to its sting operations for catching retailers selling tobacco to minors, the Province of P.E.I. has found stores selling flavoured cigars to youth.