Bill Mcguire

Growers approve new contract April 23 with mediation help

As the US dries out, giant storms of dust are becoming increasingly common across the southwest

People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire

NFU district director Rita Jackson, left, and NFU member Mary Mermuys, compare land holdings on some of the maps on display during the annual meeting of the District 1, Region 1 on April 30. Mermuys has done extensive research to compare Buddhist land holdings today to those over the past number of years.

Recommendations will focus on keeping land in agriculture, supporting young farmers, succession planning, environment

For years, Prince Edward Island has wrestled with difficult and often emotional conversations surrounding land ownership, land use planning, environmental protection, water rights, and the future of agriculture. Reports have been commissioned, consultations held and recommendations debated, yet many Islanders would argue the broader conversation has increasingly become stalled by division, politics and uncertainty.

Minister tells legislature PEI must protect its “finite” supply of farmland

Keira Carruthers of the Kensington 4-H Club, second left, is presented with the Marlene MacDonald Memorial Award as top senior speaker at the 2026 4-H P.E.I. Provincial Communications Competition, held April 25 at the Cymbria Lions Club. Joining her, from left, are MacDonald family members Connie MacDonald, Andy MacDonald and Erika MacDonald.

The president of the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market Co-operative says his board is becoming increasingly impatient as the organization waits for the federal government to decide whether the market can return to its longtime Belvedere Avenue home with some firm guarantees of long-term security.

Western Europe is currently in the grip of an unusually early heatwave. In France and the UK, meteorologists have recorded new record temperatures