Security guards will patrol public parks in Charlottetown this summer, but some members of council say it’s not enough. Since 2010, the city has hired security to patrol Victoria Park and other city greenspaces. While council voted 10-0 at the April ...

After being open for less than a month, a new Summerside shelter is already making a difference for some of the province’s new mothers. One of its five beds was occupied when SaltWire visited; two more women and their babies were preparing to arrive ...

Violence is on the rise in classrooms across the province, and the P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation (PEITF) is aiming to stop it. The PEITF is currently waiting for the Public Schools Branch to finish an inclusion report to find out how best to ...

The 27 members of P.E.I.’s legislature headed back to their districts for the summer after a 31-day sitting closed on April 23. The spring sitting saw the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Dennis King pass another record-high budget, ...

A bill that will lift a longstanding ban on recreational hunting on Sundays is set to be passed in the P.E.I. legislature. Introduced by Environment Minister Steven Myers, an amendment to the Wildlife Conservation Act will strike out a provision in ...

A P.E.I. woman is dead and a Nova Scotia woman is hospitalized with serious injuries following a two-vehicle head-on collision in Upper Nappan, Cumberland County, on Monday. Just before 12:30 p.m., emergency services responded to the crash on Highway ...

A 43-year-old Stratford man has been charged with impaired driving following an incident in Charlottetown on Tuesday morning, April 23. Just after midnight, Charlottetown police received complaints of a vehicle parked and running on Prince Street, ...

A Summerside man in possession of stolen tools and crystal methamphetamine was caught after Mounties used air tags to track the pilfered goods. East Prince RCMP got a report of roughly $2,000 worth of air-tagged tools stolen from a construction site ...

A P.E.I. man who was arrested inside a Subway restaurant shortly after driving drunk into a snowbank while nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. Samuel Leo Joseph Weeks, 25, of Cornwall, pleaded guilty ...

The provincial government has provided financial support for a study aimed at improving the understanding of the changing needs and expectations of post-secondary students in the province.  The three P.E.I. post-secondary student unions – UPEI, ...