Atlantic News

HALIFAX — According to his Royal Canadian Air Force service records, 21-year-old Pilot Officer Bill Bennet was a fine airman.

HALIFAX — A 17-year-old Halifax-area boy has been sentenced 10 months in a youth detention centre for his role in the stabbing death of a high school student during a brawl over a girl.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia health officials say a child has been admitted to hospital because of measles. A news release from the province says the child is in stable condition at Halifax's IWK Health Centre.

HALIFAX — An independent monitor says Nova Scotia is making gradual progress in some aspects of its five-year plan to move people with disabilities out of institutions and off wait-lists for community housing.

CHARLOTTETOWN — It now costs less for drivers to cross the 12.9-kilometre Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to Canada's mainland. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week the toll for an average vehicle will drop from $50.

HANTSPORT — Glooscap First Nation in Nova Scotia is launching a seafood market with local products caught and processed by its members, as a way to keep profits in the community and help pay for services.

NEW-WES-VALLEY — The affordable housing complex Mike Tiller is hoping for is unlike anything else in his community.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Community College has officially opened the third of seven promised on-campus housing projects at its waterfront campus in Dartmouth. The $58.6 million student residence will house 200 students beginning in September.

The federal government says it is committed to working with Mi’kmaq First Nations in Nova Scotia to improve the income assistance program — though Ottawa has yet to provide details on the progress of negotiations.

SYDNEY — Police in Cape Breton are trying to determine who painted swastikas on a road near a Jewish cemetery north of Sydney. Cape Breton Regional Police say the Nazi symbols were reported to police on Wednesday.