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Tribal organizations in Alaska will receive $19.1 million in energy cost assistance after U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski secured the funds through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program Wednesday.

Elected leaders in Summerside are telling P.E.I. MLAs they want to see the province take a different approach to homelessness than what was done in Charlottetown — in particular avoiding replicating the Community Outreach Centre.

The mayor of Charlottetown says everyone has a responsibility to 'lower the temperature' as the rhetoric over the province's Community Outreach Centre on Euston Street heats up.

The Native Council of P.E.I. is asking for the resignation of Charlottetown Coun. Mitch Tweel after statements he made during a recent council meeting.

Truth and Reconciliation Day started in Charlottetown with a flag lowering ceremony, before going to UPEI to do a meaningful exercise.

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Day was recognized on Prince Edward Island on Saturday.

The Native Council of P.E.I.'s chief says Truth and Reconciliation Day is first and foremost about learning more about history, so that wrongs like the residential schools era never happen again.

More than 20 people rallied in Charlottetown as part of Canada-wide protests calling for action on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls Monday, the same day P.E.I. police confirmed they have found the body of Summer Kneebone.

A body found in a remote area of Kings County, P.E.I., is believed to be the remains of 27-year-old Summer Kneebone, Charlottetown police said Friday.

Dozens of volunteers searched the area around Mount Stewart, P.E.I., on Tuesday, clinging to the hope that they will find 27-year-old Summer Kneebone alive.