Dr. Nash Denic has resigned as head of laboratory services at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority after a drug-testing fiasco in which lab officials are accused of reacting to the problem too slowly.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a Corner Brook resident was seriously injured after a house fire on Wednesday night.

A two-year-old Labrador girl has died of injuries sustained during a two-car crash, police said Wednesday.

Ontario's Glenn Howard wrapped up a playoff spot at the Brier in Halifax on Wednesday, while the rinks chasing him jockeyed for position.

Interest rate increases will drive the Canadian dollar back up to parity with its U.S. counterpart by this summer, economists say.

An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the province's largest health authority showed off a new digital mammography unit Wednesday.

An elderly man died after being struck by a pickup truck on a regional highway outside St. John's on Tuesday night, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said.

A central Newfoundland child was flown to a hospital in St. John's after she was struck by a vehicle, police said Wednesday.

Police in southern Newfoundland are investigating an incident in which a rifle was used to shoot bullets into two neighbouring cabins.

The family of a missing Moncton woman is offering a $25,000 reward for information that helps find her.

The newly elected chief at a Labrador Innu reserve is backing away from claims that he will abolish an alcohol ban in Natuashish.

Organizers of next year's East Coat Music Association Conference and Awards in Charlottetown say it will be a spring event.

Strikers at two Vale Inco operations in Ontario will vote to reject the company's latest offer, predicts an official with their union, the United Steelworkers.

A St. John's man is scheduled to appear in provincial court Wednesday on charges related to the use of a fake credit card.

The 55 per cent dissatisfaction level voters expressed with Premier Shawn Graham's Liberal government in a poll released this week is the highest level the polling company has ever recorded in New Brunswick, officials say.

The $1.4-billion refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor in New Brunswick is continuing to miss deadlines set by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., CBC News has learned.

The New Brunswick government is not revealing what it knew about the finances of the Atcon Group when it allowed the Miramichi-based company to borrow more money from its bank last fall.

The family of a missing Moncton woman is offering a $25,000 reward for information that helps find her.

A fire has forced an early closure of NB Power's coal-fired Grand Lake Generating Station in Minto, N.B.

A Moncton man, who firebombed a house in exchange for drugs, sending the occupant to hospital for two weeks with serious burns, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature has rejected several hundred names on a 5,500-name petition against the NB Power deal, presented in the legislature Tuesday by Opposition leader David Alward.

The New Brunswick Seniors Federation is seeking reforms to the property tax system that would reduce the tax bills seniors are paying on their homes.

A NB Power worker is recovering in a Halifax hospital after being severely burned on the job on Tuesday.

Fredericton police are asking for the public's help in their investigation into a 2008 sudden death, which has now been deemed suspicious.

More than 45,000 Canadians could be recognized as status Indians under changes the federal government plans to make to the Indian Act, CBC News has learned.

Organizers of next year's East Coat Music Association Conference and Awards in Charlottetown say it will be a spring event.

The majority of New Brunswickers are dissatisfied with the performance of the governing Liberal party, but that hasn't translated into more people planning to vote for the Progressive Conservatives, according to a new poll.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with a string of debit card frauds in New Brunswick that involved money being stolen from people's bank accounts.

Canadian Football League officials and players descended on Moncton, N.B., to drum up excitement about the first regular season CFL game to be played in Atlantic Canada.

The Dartmouth courthouse was locked down Wednesday following a disturbance after a sentencing hearing.

Premier Darrell Dexter has changed his mind and will no longer be charging taxpayers for the annual professional dues he pays to the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society to keep his status as a lawyer active.

Nova Scotia MLAs won an unwanted award Wednesday as they collectively took the provincial prize for dubious government spending handed out by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

Ontario's Glenn Howard wrapped up a playoff spot at the Brier in Halifax on Wednesday, while the rinks chasing him jockeyed for position.

A Halifax couple charged with manslaughter in the death of their seven-week-old daughter will face preliminary inquiries in April.

The mystery surrounding Sidney Crosby's missing stick and glove from the Olympic gold-medal game on Feb. 28 has been solved, Hockey Canada announced Wednesday.

Halifax police are searching for a man who was involved in a sexual assault last month.

Officials with Nova Scotia's Health Department said Wednesday they will miss the targeted launch for the province's electronic health record program by three months.

RCMP arrested five people in Nova Scotia and seized an array of drugs in three separate incidents Tuesday.

A popular Nova Scotia boat festival has been cancelled because of a shortage of volunteers.

A contest poking fun at free-spending Nova Scotia members of the legislature has landed a Halifax radio station in trouble.

Residents in Mineville and East Preston, N.S., have been shaken by several brazen home invasions in recent nights.

A loose fuel line was the cause of a light plane crash in Trenton, N.S., in January, according to a report from the Transportation Safety Board.

Halifax Regional Council has agreed to hold public hearings on a controversial new development proposal for Spring Garden Road.

Organizers of next year's East Coat Music Association Conference and Awards in Charlottetown say it will be a spring event.

The Prince Edward Island government plans a $6-million expansion of Holland College in West Prince, P.E.I.

The Lennox Island Mi'kmaq band in P.E.I. is looking to the U.S. and to other native communities for customers for their new lobster processing plant.

A P.E.I. man is facing jail time for his role in a high-speed crash that sent his 17-year-old passenger to the hospital with serious injuries.

The owner of a convenience store in western P.E.I. has decided to close for good after a break-in the night after his wife's funeral.

The civil service is not to blame for government deficits and it won't take on the lion's share of the burden of fixing the problem, say unions on P.E.I.

A loose fuel line was the cause of a light plane crash in Trenton, N.S., in January, according to a report from the Transportation Safety Board.

P.E.I. health officials say they are still waiting for the first reported case of seasonal influenza this year.

An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.

The West Prince Chamber of Commerce has come out against a two-minimum wage for P.E.I., unlike business groups in other parts of the province.

More than 45,000 Canadians could be recognized as status Indians under changes the federal government plans to make to the Indian Act, CBC News has learned.

Charlottetown's 30th annual Spring Thaw hockey tournament has been put on ice because organizers could not attract enough teams.

Organizers of next year's East Coat Music Association Conference and Awards in Charlottetown say it will be a spring event.

P.E.I.'s Department of Education says it's on track in its plan to move kindergarten-age children from daycare centres into the province's public school system in September.

A significant reduction in crab stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence is bad news for eastern Canadian fishermen.

A cancer patient who successfully helped lobby the New Brunswick government to fund an expensive cancer drug is now shifting his focus to P.E.I. in an effort to have Avastin funded by that province.