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• NS: Assault charge leaves some questioning...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - A few days after a Nova Scotia cabinet minister was charged with assaulting another member of the legislature, Premier Darrell ...
• NL: Seal hunt continues amid legal wrangling over...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A ruling Thursday from a European court is expected to reignite an international debate over Canada's annual East Coast seal ...
• NS: Billboard for women's tribute stirs up controversy
  [HALIFAX, NS] — As billboards go, it's as bland as they come, featuring only a few lines of text and a photo of three guys in suits. It's what ...
• NS: Province receives word on transfer payments
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's finance minister says federal officials have assured her the province is getting more in federal transfer payments ...
• NS: Nova Scotia urged to buy huge swath of privately...
  [LIVERPOOL, NS] — The Nova Scotia government should buy a massive swath of forested land that once fed the now-defunct Bowater-Mersey paper mill ...
• NS: Dexter under fire for keeping Muskrat Falls...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The debate over Nova Scotia's role in the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric development in Labrador took an odd twist Thursday as ...
• NS: Atlantic region facing disproportionate share of...
  [HALIFAX, NS] – A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says Atlantic Canada will suffer a disproportionate blow as the ...
• NL: Proposal to kill 70,000 grey seals could lead to...
  [HALIFAX, NS] – The head of the world's largest seal processing facility says if Canada approves a proposal to pay hunters to kill 70,000 grey ...
• 'Crunch time' for free trade talks with Europe
  [HALIFAX, NS] — After three years of closed-door talks, it's "crunch time" for Canada's free trade negotiations with Europe, the European Union's ...
• NS: Irving sets deadline of January for Arctic...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The president of Irving Shipbuilding Inc. is applying pressure on Ottawa to sign a contract on design work for eight new Arctic ...
• NS: Petroleum firm calls fracking waste deadline...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The head of an oil and gas exploration firm says the company can't meet a deadline to clean up holding ponds in Nova Scotia ...
• NS: Revamped bid to save mill could hurt government,...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The sudden death and resurrection on the weekend of a multimillion-dollar deal aimed at saving jobs at the idle NewPage Port ...
• NS: Nova Scotia court dismisses appeal aimed at...
  [HALIFAX, NS] – The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has dismissed a bid by a citizens group to overturn a permit for an oil and gas test well near Lake ...
• NS: Premier stands firm on decision to move civil...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's latest bid to spur economic development in the rural hinterland will move ahead even though 90 per cent of ...
• NS: Salvage of MV Miner mired in red tape, say...
  [MAIN-A-DIEU, NS] - The federal government is making it too difficult for local residents to take part in the salvage of a ship stranded off the ...
• NL: Cod recovery finally evident 20 years after...
  [ST. JOHN'S, NL] — Twenty years after Ottawa shut down Newfoundland's once-thriving northern cod fishery, a growing number of scientists, ...
• NS: Hydraulic fracturing put on hold for two more years
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The Nova Scotia government is putting a two-year hold on hydraulic fracturing, saying it needs more time to study a controversial ...
• NS: Premier vows to move provincial jobs out of Halifax
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's government says it plans to move civil service jobs out of Halifax, a move that has alienated the province's ...
• Immigration bolsters Atlantic region's population ranks
  [HALIFAX, NS] — After decades of losing its young people to the lure of high-paying work in Ontario and Western Canada, the Atlantic region is ...
• NS: Idled NewPage paper mill 'tentatively' sold to...
  [PORT HAWKESBURY, NS] — The idled NewPage paper mill in Cape Breton has been tentatively sold to a company in British Columbia that intends to ...
• Controversy over shale gas fracking galvanizes...
  [MARITIMES] — A few kilometres from Ken Summers's home, a stout pipe bristling with rusty valves and thick bolts protrudes from the middle of a ...
• NS: Group opposed to drilling hopes to achieve legal...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The co-chairman of a citizens' group in Cape Breton says they're headed to court not only to block a proposal for an exploratory ...
• NS: Impact from shipbuilding deal won't be felt...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Businesses across Nova Scotia — not just those in Halifax — will benefit from the $25-billion federal shipbuilding contract ...
• Promise of seal meat market in China yet to materialize
  [OTTAWA, ON] — Almost a year after Canada's fisheries minister announced she had landed a trade agreement to sell Canadian seal meat in China, ...
• NS & NB: Clearwater co-founder confident current...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Canada's largest shellfish producer says a proposed takeover of Clearwater Seafoods Income Fund (TSX:CLR.UN) won't succeed in its ...
• NS: Towns have seen their share of red ink, but most...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Newly released figures show almost half of Nova Scotia's municipalities carried a deficit in at least one of the past three ...
• NS: Premier concerned by greenhouse gas rules aimed...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Premier Darrell Dexter says he's concerned new greenhouse gas regulations being drafted in Ottawa will drive up energy costs in ...
• NS: Commercial seal hunt off Canada's East Coast one...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - As the annual East Coast seal hunt draws to a close, federal officials have confirmed this season was one of the worst since the ...
• NS: Bridgetown meltdown an isolated case, Nova...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - While it's true that many of Nova Scotia's municipalities are struggling with a shrinking tax base, none of them is facing the ...
• NS: Bridgetown town council resigns en masse, RCMP...
  [BRIDGETOWN, NS] - The council and mayor of a small town in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley quit en masse Tuesday, citing long-standing financial ...