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• Harper makes $7.7 million funding announcement in...
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper went into the only riding held by a Conservative in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday to announce more than $7.7 ...
• Crane calls for HST exemption for all forms of home...
  Premier Robert Ghiz needs to exempt all forms of home heating, including electricity and wood, from the harmonized sales tax, Morell-Mermaid MLA ...
• Finances dominate Day 1 at Province House
  Finance Minister Wes Sheridan says this has been the most difficult time to govern since the 1930s and Canadians are only now starting to realize ...
• HST will hurt low-income Islanders
  The Prince Edward Island government is implementing what Tignish-Palmer Road MLA Hal Perry describes as the worst HST legislation in the country. ...
• Snow, ice pellets and freezing rain expected Wednesday
  Islanders have come to know that just because it says spring on the calendar doesn’t mean that it is spring outside. This week’s forecast will ...
• Stompin’ Tom Connors is dead at 77
  By Wayne Thibodeau and Doug Gallant A Canadian music icon that called Prince Edward Island home has died. Stompin’ Tom Connors died of natural ...
• Mickey’s Place ordered to change its dish-washing...
  A popular hang out for UPEI students has been ordered to change some of the practices it uses to clean dishes. Environmental health inspectors ...
• UPDATE: Pole fire plunges Prince Co into darkness
  A major blackout plunged most of western Prince Edward Island into the dark Thursday evening for more than four hours. The lights went out ...
• UPDATE: Winter storm watch issued for P.E.I.
  A winter storm watch has been issued for all of Prince Edward Island as a storm, some have said is historic in its size and strength, gets set to ...
• UPDATE: P.E.I. dodges blizzard, but wind warning...
  P.E.I. dodged a major winter blizzard on Monday, according to Environment Canada. However parts of the province will still see heavy winds and ...
• Food inspectors issue six warnings around Charlottetown
  Six P.E.I. food establishments have received warning letters from Environmental Health inspectors. Four of them were for operating without ...
• Ghiz confident province will see catastrophic drug...
  While not making a concrete commitment, Premier Robert Ghiz says he is confident his government can bring in a catastrophic drug program in ...
• Q&A with Premier Ghiz
  Q: Do you still find this job rewarding? Do you still want to be premier of Prince Edward Island? A: Absolutely. It’s still a very rewarding job. ...
• Electricity could become HST exempt in future: Ghiz
  A controversial tax that has yet to be implemented could be expanded to include home heating fuel and be dropped from electricity, Premier Robert ...
• Trudeau will be PM: Ghiz
  Justin Trudeau will make a great prime minister, P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz says. In his annual year-end interview with The Guardian, Ghiz says ...
• Harper "sabotaged" health-care talks, Ghiz says
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper “sabotaged” health-care talks between the federal government and the provinces, says Premier Robert Ghiz. Ghiz, who ...
• Lady Antebellum pulling out of Cavendish Beach Music...
  Lady Antebellum is pulling out of its plans to attend the Cavendish Beach Music Festival. The reason? Band member Hillary Scott is expecting her ...
• UPDATE: All of P.E.I. now expected to receive 5 to...
  Prince Edward Island's first storm of the season promises to deliver a little bit of everything today – starting off with snow, changing to ice ...
• MLAs' salary review on hold until February
  P.E.I. MLAs will have to wait until February to hear whether or not they are getting a raise. The Indemnities and Allowances Commission decides ...
• Nurse practitioners taking on greater health-care role
  Up to 1,200 people in the greater Charlottetown area who are waiting for a doctor will soon be placed with a nurse practitioner as their main ...
• Premier, wife, Kate, expecting third child
  Kate Middleton isn’t the only Kate expecting a baby in 2013. Premier Robert Ghiz confirmed on Tuesday that he and his wife, Kate Ellis Ghiz, are ...
• Cuts to EI ‘a real concern,’ says Trudeau
  MEADOW BANK — The lack of understanding that Stephen Harper’s government has shown over cuts to the employment insurance program is ‘a real ...
• Liberals must stop infighting, start engaging...
  Justin Trudeau is taking his Liberal leadership campaign to Prince Edward Island on Monday. The 40-year-old MP from the riding of Papineau in ...
• QEH limiting visitation on Unit 1 this weekend
  P.E.I.’s largest hospital will be limiting visitation on Unit 1 to immediate family only beginning Saturday morning as patients continue to ...
• Western Hospital emergency shutdown for 24 hours...
  Western P.E.I.’s only emergency department is being shutdown on Saturday because of a lack of physicians. Health P.E.I. says the emergency ...
• Trudeau bringing leadership campaign to P.E.I.
  One of the most recognizable faces in Canadian politics is taking his leadership campaign to Prince Edward Island.Montreal MP Justin Trudeau will ...
• Magnum P.E.I.
  November may be a hairy month for Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz.Ghiz has accepted a challenge from Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who ...
• Sandy will bring wind and rain to P.E.I. for Halloween
  Sandy’s wrath may be most felt by the children across Prince Edward Island who will be going door-to-door on Wednesday as bands of rain pelt the ...
• Crane has to go, PC survey says
  Nearly 71 per cent of card-carrying Progressive Conservatives say the party needs a new leader, according to an internal membership survey ...
• ‘Frankenstorm’ to produce nasty fall storm in...
  The storm, referred to as the ‘frankenstorm’ and ‘weather monster’ in the U.S., will produce heavy winds and rain for most of next week across ...