Province offers to buy P.E.I. potato wart index fields, take them out of agricultural production | Stratford council denies rezoning for proposed townhouse development verging on wetland | All 3 counties on Prince Edward Island told to brace for severe thunderstorms
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Province offers to buy P.E.I. potato wart index fields, take them out of agricultural production; 'The main risk pathway with this organism is soil,' says Greg Donald of the P\.E\.I\. Potato Board, which supports taking fields where potato wart has been identified out of agricultural production\.

Province offers to buy P.E.I. potato wart index fields, take them out of agricultural production

June 12 , 2025 at 06:00:56 p.m. ADT • :

Prince Edward Island is launching a new program to buy up fields where potato wart has been found in the past, hoping to stem any spread of the market-damaging disease. 

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Stratford council denies rezoning for proposed townhouse development verging on wetland; The proposed townhouse development was going to be built on this lot at the end of Hollis Avenue in Stratford\.

Stratford council denies rezoning for proposed townhouse development verging on wetland

June 12 , 2025 at 03:45:51 p.m. ADT • :

Stratford's council has turned down a rezoning request that would have allowed townhouses to be developed on land verging on a wetland in the central P.E.I. town. 

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All 3 counties on Prince Edward Island told to brace for severe thunderstorms; Lightning can be a threat by itself, but the heavy rain that often accompanies cells can cause flooding and make driving difficult\.

All 3 counties on Prince Edward Island told to brace for severe thunderstorms

June 12 , 2025 at 01:48:02 p.m. ADT • :

All of P.E.I. was under a severe thunderstorm watch Thursday afternoon, with Environment Canada saying a weather system over the Island was capable of producing strong wind gusts and heavy rain.

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'Not here to scare people,' but P.E.I. watchdog raising alarm bells about historic debt levels; P\.E\.I\. auditor general says province will have to face some tough decision as debt keeps soaring

'Not here to scare people,' but P.E.I. watchdog raising alarm bells about historic debt levels

June 12 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

P.E.I.'s auditor general says the province's net debt, the highest in the province's history, is unsustainable.

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Review of how school and education officials handle sex-related complaints is now underway; Man with glasses and grey hair, wearing a grey business suit\.

Review of how school and education officials handle sex-related complaints is now underway

June 12 , 2025 at 07:25:40 p.m. ADT • :

Former P.E.I. Chief Justice David Jenkins has just started a new temporary job. He talks to Louise Martin of CBC News: Compass about the scope of his third-party review into how Public Schools Branch practices and policies played into the Matthew Craswell case.

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Summerside students learn about climate action by planting trees on their school grounds; Two boys pat dirt around the trunk of a small spruce tree, with other students milling around behind them\.  

June 11 , 2025 at 07:05:07 p.m. ADT • :

Summerside students learn about climate action by planting trees on their school grounds

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Some P.E.I. lobster fishers want 'moderate livelihood' defined, after DFO seizes more traps; More lobster traps removed from water off Lennox Island First Nation, on P\.E\.I\.'s North Shore  

June 10 , 2025 at 06:47:45 p.m. ADT • :

Some P.E.I. lobster fishers want 'moderate livelihood' defined, after DFO seizes more traps

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Irving Oil donates long-closed gas station property to City of Charlottetown; Charlottetown's mayor, Philip Brown, is shown at the Euston Street site on Wednesday\.  

June 11 , 2025 at 06:00:00 p.m. ADT • :

Irving Oil donates long-closed gas station property to City of Charlottetown

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Charges stayed against Winnipeg man accused in sextortion case police said involved victims in 4 provinces; Court records show all 10 counts of extortion against Tongun Justin Tongun, who was 21 at the time he was charged, were stayed on May 7\.  

June 11 , 2025 at 07:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

Charges stayed against Winnipeg man accused in sextortion case police said involved victims in 4 provinces

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All aboard: Health P.E.I.'s newest dental clinic is coming to you this summer; A large green and white bus with pictures of multicoloured toothbrushes on the side\.  

June 11 , 2025 at 06:35:04 p.m. ADT • :

All aboard: Health P.E.I.'s newest dental clinic is coming to you this summer

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