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• NS: Buyer steps forward to save NovaScotian Crystal
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A unique crystal making company in Nova Scotia says it has found a buyer, weeks after the cash-strapped business unexpectedly ...
• NS: Finance ministers won't appear at committee on...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's auditor general clarified Wednesday who was in the loop on a budget error last year, telling a legislature ...
• NS: Ferry needed, not hotel handouts, says opposition
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A $350,000 forgivable loan for a struggling Yarmouth hotel is another example of how Nova Scotia's NDP cherry-picks recipients of ...
• NS: Controversy erupts over $27M deficit discrepancy
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The Nova Scotia government is defending itself against accusations from the auditor general that it knowingly delivered a budget ...
• NS: Fight fermenting - Law pits small businesses...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - A Nova Scotia law dictating where hobbyists can make their own wine and beer has uncorked a torrent of condemnation among ...
• NS: Cape Breton test well venture still on track
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A company looking to drill an oil and gas test well near Cape Breton's largest freshwater lake says it remains committed to the ...
• NS: Premier defends power rate deal for idle mill
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Premier Darrell Dexter is brushing off criticism from Nova Scotia's consumer advocate that an energy rate agreement for the idle ...
• NS: NewPage incentive announcement ignites concern
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A Cape Breton paper mill that has sat idle for nearly a year moved a step closer to reopening with the announcement Monday of a ...
• NS: Pacific West wants keys to shuttered mill by...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The prospective buyer of a shuttered paper mill in Cape Breton is eager to get the deal wrapped up by Aug. 31 to avoid missing a ...
• NS: Trucked natural gas gets green light in Nova Scotia
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Universities, hospitals and other big energy customers in Nova Scotia could have compressed natural gas delivered to their front ...
• NS: Fishermen fear feds threatening industry's...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A Nova Scotia-based fishing association says it fears the federal government is planning changes that will destroy the very ...
• ACOA slashes funding to organizations
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is slashing $5 million in annual funding to some 50 economic development organizations ...
• NS: Premier calls Emera party decision insensitive
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's premier says it was insensitive for executives at Halifax-based utility Emera to throw themselves a party one day ...
• NB: With history of rising back up, Moncton's census...
  [MONCTON, NB] – Like the ebb and flow of the Petitcodiac River that runs through it, Moncton can always be counted on to rise back up. The ...
• NS: Cooke Aquaculture deals with fallout from...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A Maritime aquaculture company says it is taking the outbreak of a salmon virus at one of its Nova Scotia fish farms seriously. ...
• NS: Clock ticking for creditor claims against...
  [POINT TUPPER, NS] — Creditors who say they are owed money by an idled Cape Breton paper mill have until April 16 to submit their claims. The ...
• NS: Auditor general defends report that questions...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's auditor general defended his right to question the ethics of government debt Wednesday as the NDP took aim at ...
• NS: Nova Scotia's $569M surplus sparks accusations...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — An economy that performed better than expected and controlled spending helped Nova Scotia record a surplus of $569.1 million for ...
• NS: Settlement could mean $75,000 for immigrants who...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Hundreds of immigrants who moved to Nova Scotia and paid into a failed mentorship program each stand to receive up to $75,000 as ...
• NS: Nova Scotia nurses' union demands higher wages
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The union representing 2,300 nurses in Nova Scotia's largest health district says there will be no further negotiations aimed at ...
• NS: Bill Clinton says strong leadership needed to...
  [ANTIGONISH, NS] - Bill Clinton says it will take strong leadership and good ideas to help rebuild Haiti, which has struggled to lift itself out ...