Prince Edward Island News

A fire in a North Rustico, P.E.I., bungalow early Wednesday morning has left a family homeless.

The P.E.I. fire marshal sent a critical-stress debriefing team to Alberton on Thursday to deal with the aftermath of a fatal car crash.

Harkins third annual Winter Carnival which was held Friday and Saturday, February 23 and 24 has been termed a great success by Carnival officials.

Sleepy Hollow isn't so sleepy these days, it would seem. The Charlottetown jail has been seeing steady increases of inmates over the past several years, which has been causing overcrowding and security concerns.

MILL RIVER Solid play has made Derek Gillespie $100,000 richer. Gillespie, the 30-year-old from Oshawa, Ont., beat out fashion model Blair O'Neal to claim the Big Break Prince Edward Island top prize Monday night on The Golf Channel.

CHARLOTTETOWN Environment Canada officials could know later today just how much partially-treated sewage has made its way into Queen County's East River.

The finale of The Golf Channel's "Big Break Prince Edward Island" will be broadcast on Monday night with a $100,000 nine-hole challenge that has Blair O'Neal facing off against Derek Gillespie.

With the Canada Games, major festivals and summer camps coming up, P.E.I.'s chief health officer is making plans to keep swine flu off the Island this summer.

Prince Edward Island's tourism could be in line for a banner season despite a global economic recession that has put a storm cloud over the industry across Canada.

Meeka Kakudluk is still struggling to relearn the Inuit culture she lost a half-century ago in schools where southern ways and the English language dominated.

Progressive Conservative MLA Mike Currie pleaded guilty to a charge of assault in Provincial Court Friday morning.

Man fired because of political beliefs wanted more than $300,000 in compensation - he got $8,000 WAYNE THIBODEAU The Guardian John MacTavish of Montague says he had faith in the justice system until Monday when he was awarded only $8,000 in his decade-old political discrimination case against the Prince Edward Island government.

A new $80,000 grant to the University of Prince Edward Island and Veterans Affairs Canada will fund research that could overhaul the system to help military veterans with mental-health problems.

Here's the problem, as Bill Kendrick sees it: "Once you've gone to Cavendish, seen the musical and driven the South Shore, what's there to come back to P.E.I. for?" The first two items, of course, refer to Anne of Green Gables, the book that's made Prince Edward Island famous.

Credit: Handout] Potatoes, lobster, the best calamari going a ' Prince Edward Island has some great eating, but the island province also is making a name for its growing bounty of wild blueberries.

Lillian O'Connor, shown here at one week old, has reportedly received a new heart.

Police investigators in Prince Edward Island are still trying to figure out how a waste container fell off a truck near New Glasgow, west of Charlottetown, Saturday.

A freak accident in New Glasgow early Saturday morning claimed the life of a 39-year-old Hope River man.

Charlottetown police have interviewed a person of interest and several witnesses after a young female clerk at a convenience store was robbed at knifepoint on Sunday.

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