Nicola MacLeod

Six jurors will sit through three days of testimony in the death of 25-year-old Brandi Clarke. It will be on them to make recommendations to prevent future deaths.

A carpenter from western Prince Edward Island has been ordered to pay $30,000 after an employee died following a fall on a worksite that did not have the proper safety protocols in place.

Fourteen people and companies with ties to Canadian Nectar Products and Island Gold Honey are facing charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in P.E.I. provincial court, with some of them also facing criminal charges for money laundering.

Island blueberry company Jasper Wyman & Son Canada Inc. will have to pay $80,000 after pleading guilty to a charge stemming from the death of a longtime employee who was run over by his own work tractor. 

The Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (GEBIS) and one of its monks will have to pay a total of $110,000 in fines following an occupational health and safety investigation into the death of a man on its Heatherdale Campus last summer.

John Bernard says he was openly running a smoke shop out of his home on the reserve in Scotchfort, P.E.I., for about a year before he was pulled over by police and arrested. He believes he has the right to do so.

Changes to the P.E.I. Tobacco and Electronic Smoking Device Sales and Access Act came into effect on Feb. 1 after amendments passed during the fall sitting of the legislature.

The Chilean man who acted as a money collector on behalf of a criminal enterprise he claims to know nothing about has been sentenced to 270 days in jail for his part in scams orchestrated across New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

A former employee of the Chez-Nous community care co-operative in Wellington has pleaded guilty to misusing a company credit card to defraud her employer of nearly $18,000.

Henry Donald Crabbe pleaded guilty Tuesday in provincial court in Charlottetown to both child luring and making sexually explicit material available to a child.