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ST. JOHN'S — A social worker with decades of experience working with the Innu in Newfoundland and Labrador has told a public inquiry that government social services that were supposed to help have in...

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says affordable housing units for 22 youth and young families will open next week thanks to a partnership with two local non-profits. Phoenix Youth Programs and...

CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES — Environment Canada is warning residents in the Channel-Port aux Basques, N.L., area to prepare for hazardous winter conditions. The weather agency has issued a winter storm...

HALIFAX — RCMP in Halifax say a 47-year-old woman from New Brunswick has died following a single-vehicle crash. Police and fire services were called around 9:30 a.m. Saturday to report of a collision...

ST. JOHN'S — Walter Bolger had to hit the brakes for an unusual roadblock in southern Labrador this week. The 62-year-old seal harvester was driving with his wife in West Saint Modeste, N.L., on Thursday...

YARMOUTH — RCMP in Yarmouth, N.S., say a 52-year-old female middle school teacher faces sex charges involving a youth victim. Police say they received a report on March 4 of an alleged sexual assault...

Mi’kmaq communities in Nova Scotia will be able to open legal cannabis retail stores on reserve under new provincial regulations. The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation had been the only authorized cannabis...

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador's acting minister of health says he would have no qualms about putting a family member in a personal care home despite an auditor's report that listed assaults...

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has sentenced a teenage girl to three months in a youth detention centre for her role in the stabbing death last year of 16-year-old Halifax high school student Ahmad Al...