Tourist operators on P.E.I.'s North Shore are reporting a banner weekend during the Cavendish Beach Music Festival, but one retailer reports the weekend didn't go so well for him.

While many businesses are struggling during this economic downturn, P.E.I.'s aerospace sector appears to be soaring.

A long effort at recruiting volunteers for the 2009 Canada Games on P.E.I. at the end of August appears to be finally paying off.

Island farmers who don't properly dispose of bad potatoes can now face much higher fines, as the province moves to stop the spread of diseases.

Some Prince Edward Islanders are complaining mosquitoes and blackflies are getting the best of them this year because of more rigorous pesticide-use certification requirements by the province.

Nova Scotia is seeing another spike in swine flu cases, with dozens of new cases.

A Halifax pipe and drum band performed with Paul McCartney on the Halifax Common.

Thanks to the sunshine, the Halifax Common seems to have stood up well to 50,000 dancing Paul McCartney fans.

The RCMP have launched a homicide investigation after a man's body was found in a lake Sunday in Yarmouth County.

Paul McCartney's autograph is now permanently inked on a young fan's arm.

The city of Regina has found an elm tree infected with Dutch Elm disease, and planned to remove it Monday afternoon.

A 71-year-old driver died in a highway crash near Colonsay, Sask., on Monday morning.

Environmentalists have won a legal victory which forces the federal government to declare the mating grounds of the sage-grouse an environmentally protected area.

A funeral is to be held Monday at the Yellow Quill First Nation for a 25-year-old woman who died of the H1N1 swine flu.

Gerald Klein, the Regina man who has been ordered to stay away from the woman he stalked for more than three decades, returned to court Monday to challenge those orders.

TAIPEI : Taiwan's overall exports may taken a beating from the economic crisis, but its agricultural products are bucking the trend, reporting an increase of more than 12 per cent last year. Among the biggest buyers is mainland China, which

UNITED NATIONS - Myanmar is preparing an amnesty for political prisoners on humanitarian grounds so they can contest next year's general elections, the country's UN ambassador said Monday. "At the request of the (UN) Secretary General (Ban Ki-moon), the Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS : Warning that "the world is watching," UN chief Ban Ki-moon pressed Myanmar's military rulers Monday to deliver on their pledge to ensure "inclusive, free and fair" elections next year. "The (Myanmar) government needs to deliver on the

TAIPEI - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan early Tuesday, shaking people from bed, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake hit at 2:05 am (1805 GMT Monday), causing buildings

LIMA, Peru : Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori, sentenced in April to 25 years prison for authorizing a secret army hit squad, appeared in court on Monday facing fresh corruption charges. Fujimori, president from 1990 to 2000, is charged with illegally