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The province's largest school board is preparing a swine flu pandemic plan that calls for schools to stay open but extra-curricular activities to be scaled back.

A Dartmouth, N.S., family was scrambling Tuesday to find a way around new visa requirements imposed on citizens of Mexico and the Czech Republic.

RCMP have identified Neil Joseph Blades as the man found dead in a lake in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County last weekend.

Two managers in Saskatchewan's Ministry of Social Services have been cleared to return to their jobs after a lengthy investigation concluded they had done nothing improper.

An 87-year-old Saskatoon woman is accused of driving through a red light on a busy thoroughfare in that city, and colliding with a van, sending her 92-year-old passenger to hospital.

Farmers in the Kindersley area of Saskatchewan have filed an unprecedented number of claims for crop insurance midway through the growing season, according to preliminary information from the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation.

The mother of the 18-month-old boy who died on the weekend said she believes in the justice system, following an adjournment in a court case related to the child's death.

Trevor Dimen, the Regina man convicted of manslaughter for the 2008 killing of his father, has asked the court of appeal for Saskatchewan to review his case.

P.E.I. kindergarten commissioner Pat Mella briefed cabinet Tuesday on her report on integrating kindergarten students into Island schools, but Islanders will have to wait to hear more about it.

The hoped-for rush for accommodations on P.E.I. during the Canada Games at the end of August is not appearing.

Officials at Maritime Electric believe a fire at a substation at Dingwells Mills may be the cause of a blackout affecting 2,300 customers in eastern P.E.I. Wednesday morning.

Children living in and visiting Charlottetown will have a chance to ride a life-size replica of the TV character Theodore Tugboat during a festival in August.

Despite the recession, passenger traffic continues to increase at the Charlottetown Airport, although just marginally.

The federal government has brought in new towing policies for the coast guard in response to several probes into last year's deadly accident involving a disabled sealing vessel off the coast of Cape Breton.

A widlfire that burned more than a square kilometre of brush and forest near Long Harbour, N.L., was contained Tuesday.

Shrimp-plant workers in N.L. are breathing a sigh of relief now that shrimp fishing boats are back on the water.Late Friday, a deal was brokered between the provincial government, the fishermen's union and processing officials to restart the fishery.

A high-ranking official who was hired this year to improve communications at the N.L. provincial health authority at the centre of a breast cancer test scandal has left her job.