Prince Edward Island News

Beginning at 5:30 p.m. today there will be a partial closure and detour on the Charlottetown perimeter highway.

The P.E.I. government has closed its flu assessment centre in O'Leary after the number of new cases of swine flu dropped off over the weekend.

SUMMERSIDE A plea was finally heard in the case of assault on an infant, with the facts of the case to be heard early next year.

The citya s operations and finance committee approved a 25-cent increase in bus fares, starting Jan.

While the Province has received a lower than expected supply of H1N1 vaccine for the past few weeks, they continue to use the vaccine that is available to continue with its vaccine rollout schedule.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper walks away following a TV interview with Mike Duffy in Ottawa in February 2007.

Crews in Charlottetown will begin laying the groundwork Monday for two road construction projects designed to improve traffic flow.

Temporary shutdowns at Cavendish Farms could continue into the new year, according to a company spokeswoman.

Judy Creighton, a longtime journalist with The Canadian Press, has received a prestigious award for her lifetime of service to Canada's culinary community.

A giant in Prince Edward Island's economy is now feeling the effects of the global economic recession and its 800-member workforce is going to pay the price.

SUMMERSIDE The Summerside police and firefighters union, along with the Prince Edward Island Police Association, are meeting this morning with the director of the Office of Public Safety.

The swine flu continues to target mainly children as it makes its way across P.E.I. while the potentially deadly virus almost ignores other age groups including the elderly.

Summerside police and the provincial fire marshal's office are investigating an arson at a vacant home on Duke Street Tuesday night.

A central P.E.I. man is facing child pornography charges following a police raid on a residence Wednesday.

A nationwide shortage of vaccines will delay P.E.I.'s H1N1 vaccination plan for the coming weeks, but as many schoolchildren as possible will be immunized later in the week.

Dawn Tufts grooms Logan, her Airedale, before he goes into the show ring during the Island Dog Club show in Charlottetown on the weekend.

Vice-governor Lin Fanglue and senior officials from the Chinese province of Hainan recently spent two days on Prince Edward Island.

Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old folksinger from Toronto, died after she was attacked by two coyotes in Cape Breton.

CHARLOTTETOWN A 26-year-old North Milton man is facing charges of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography following a police search carried out Wednesday.

A rediscovered work of fiction by L.M. Montgomery, handed to the publisher on the day she died in 1942, could change the way Canadians think about the famous author of Anne of Green Gables and her writing.