Nicola MacLeod

Video Journalist

Nicola is a reporter and producer for CBC News in Prince Edward Island. She regularly covers the criminal justice system and also hosted the CBC podcast Good Question P.E.I. She grew up on on the Island and is a graduate of St. Thomas University's journalism program. Got a story? Email nicola.macleod@cbc.ca

Latest from Nicola MacLeod

Charlottetown man facing 13 sex charges against minors to have case heard in P.E.I. Supreme Court

The case against an Island man accused of using the social media app TikTok to lure underage girls and commit sexual offences against them will have his case heard in front of a judge alone.

Kings County man charged with attempted murder to be released from jail

Owen Daniel MacDonald appeared in provincial court in Georgetown by video link Thursday afternoon from the Provincial Correctional Centre, where he has been since his arrest December.

Charlottetown man pleads guilty after attempting jailbreak, taking hostage

A Charlottetown man has pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from a series of events that began with him not showing up to a court date, and ended with him taking a hostage at the provincial jail in a breakout attempt.

Island man pleads guilty to sharing intimate image with undercover cop posing as child

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

$10,000 in copper piping stolen from Stratford school building site

Police say it was reported to them Thursday and the piping was taken sometime between Monday and Wednesday. Now they're looking for the person who took it and where it went.

Stratford man pleads guilty to fentanyl charge after big Charlottetown bust

A 30-year-old Stratford man has pleaded guilty to possessing fentanyl for the purpose of selling it after a seizure that Charlottetown Police touted as one of the province’s largest to date.

Developer facing environmental charges for work around Summerside waterway

Strategic Holdings Inc. is facing four charges while its president, 32-year-old Nathan Kember, faces seven.

Former P.E.I. contractor back in court on fraud charge

Documents show that sometime between the summer of 2021 and 2022, Colton Wesley David Chaulk allegedly accepted a $9,000 deposit to repair a cottage in Savage Harbour. The work was never completed.

P.E.I. school guidance counsellor accused of sex crimes chooses jury trial

The case against a P.E.I. school guidance counsellor accused of sex crimes against a minor will be heard by a judge and jury in P.E.I. Supreme Court — if it goes to trial.

P.E.I. police, coast guard launch recovery effort in Northumberland Strait

The P.E.I. RCMP say they are working with the coast guard and other first responders as they work to recover the body of a person who jumped from the Confederation Bridge Friday morning.