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Summerside Mayor Dan Kutcher speaks during his first state of the city address on April 24. Kutcher touched on a number of challenges and opportunities facing the city –including a proposed investment in green hydrogen energy.

In state of the city address, Summerside mayor says community exploring 33-megawatt green hydrogen project

Colin MacLean · Journalist |Updated 21 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

The City of Summerside is looking to continue its investment in green energy projects with a move to green hydrogen power. Mayor Dan Kutcher made the announcement during his first state of the city address on April 24. During his update, Kutcher said ...

Jacqulyn Veronica Richard, 32, was sentenced on April 23 in provincial court in Charlottetown for break-in offences and missing a previous court appearance. FILE

P.E.I. woman gets jail for break-in offences

Terrence McEachern · Journalist |Updated 22 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

A P.E.I. woman believed to have been on drugs and hallucinating when she broke into a Charlottetown home looking for her gun and instead took a resident's car keys has been sentenced for that and other offences. Jacqulyn Veronica Richard, 32, pleaded ...

The City of Summerside has launched a new grant to help groups assisting the community’s most vulnerable residents.

City of Summerside launches grant to help support vulnerable residents

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

The City of Summerside has launched a new grant to help groups assisting the community’s most vulnerable residents. The grant provides financial aid of up to $2,500 for registered not-for-profit organizations and prospective organizations aiming for ...

Allan Coady, left, joins his son and daughter, Bryce Alyssa, stand aboard their family's boat on April 24 at Covehead wharf. They spent the day maintaining the boat, preparing it for the upcoming spring lobster season in P.E.I. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

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Three generations strong: P.E.I. lobster fishing family gears up for spring season

Thinh Nguyen · Journalist |Updated 19 hours ago |8 min read Premium content

For Allan Coady, a lobster fisherman of more than 30 years, each year's setting day brings a lot of excitement especially because he gets to share the experience with his son, Bryce, and daughter, Alyssa. “I really look forward to it every spring. I ...

Dozens of people gathered in an auditorium at Colonel Grey High School on April 24 to listen and to discuss the risks associated with the privatization of health care in P.E.I. Vivian Ulinwa • SaltWire

P.E.I. Health Coalition raises concerns over privatization threats to public health care

Vivian Ulinwa · Reporter |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

Concerns about the province’s public health-care system moving towards the private sector have members of the P.E.I. Health Coalition worried. A public meeting was held April 23 at Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown to discuss the risks ...

Kuljeet Grewal is the leader of the Georgetown Living Labs project. Caitlin Coombes • Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Cleantech data collection underway in Georgetown, P.E.I.

Caitlin Coombes · Local Journalism Initiative reporter |Updated a day ago |2 min read

Researchers at Georgetown Living Labs have been concluding temperature checks for heat retainment this month in residential homes throughout the town. The first step in the public data collection has been successful, and researchers at UPEI can now ...

Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Park is near the new outreach centre location in Charlottetown. - Logan MacLean

More security needed in Charlottetown parks, councillors say, as city hires summer guards

Logan MacLean · Journalist |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

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 ...

Hope House Executive Director Tammy MacKinnon, said that the shelter is open 24 hours a day. New or expecting mothers can get a referral, or can self-refer. – Kristin Gardiner/SaltWire

Transitional housing opens in Summerside with vulnerable mothers with new children

Kristin Gardiner · Journalist |Updated a day ago |7 min read Premium content

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 ...

Andy Doran, president of the P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation, wants to see better working conditions for teachers in this province so those who graduate with an education degree will apply for teaching jobs here. Dave Stewart • The Guardian

Violence on the rise in P.E.I. schools, says teachers' federation

Dave Stewart · Journalist |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Members of the Progressive Conservative front bench listen as Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry closes out the spring sitting of the P.E.I. legislature. – Stu Neatby

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

Stu Neatby · Journalist |Updated a day ago |7 min read Premium content

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, ...

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