The federal government and Lockheed Martin are preparing to launch high-stakes negotiations after the U.S. defence giant was given the first shot at a contract to design Canada's $60-billion fleet of new warships.

New Brunswick's Tory leader says a four-year agreement with one of the smaller political parties would help create stability in a province stuck with a deadlocked result from last week's election.

Ottawa has announced a $29.8 million grant for a new project that aims to harness the immense power of the Bay of Fundy's tides.

A second federal probe is underway in Prince Edward Island alleging hundreds of people gained permanent residency in Canada by using local addresses where they didn't live, under a provincial business immigration system that's faced criticism for loose oversight.

The federal minister of immigration objected on Monday, July 9, 2018, to the new Ontario Tory government's references to people claiming refugee status as "illegal border crossers."

Climate change is already having a big impact — and Canadian governments urgently need to collect and publish data showing how safe their citizens are from floods, fires and other hazards, a federal advisory panel says. In a report Tuesday, the panel says basic information such as the percentage of poor Canadians who are living in high-risk areas, or the readiness of infrastructure for the change

For exhausted residents of the riverside communities of southern New Brunswick, the stressful process of cleaning up damaged properties and considering their future is underway in the wake of a record-breaking flood.

After more than a decade of studying police oversight agencies, Kent Roach sees Felix Cacchione's appointment as the director of Nova Scotia's law enforcement watchdog as a potential game changer.

A former soldier who killed his girlfriend and then himself at their Nova Scotia home had been on multiple tours in Afghanistan and came back psychologically "broken" and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, his family and friends said on Friday, March 23, 2018.

A small steeple that's a part of Halifax's urban landscape toppled early on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in a fierce winter storm that left thousands of Maritimers facing power outages, school closures and flight cancellations.