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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has appointed a senior Crown prosecutor as the next director of the province's police watchdog agency. Alonzo Wright will become director of the Serious Incident Response Team, or SIRT, as of Jan. 9.

Halifax’s emergency department is reporting a rise in patients admitted solely because of social circumstances — and the number of these patients is expected to spike over the holidays, a physician and researcher said Tuesday. Dr.

HALIFAX — For the second time in three months, Nova Scotia's finance minister has reported $1.3 billion in additional provincial revenue, thanks mainly to a surging economy.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A decision by Memorial University has prompted a provincewide discussion about Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial anthem.

FREDERICTON — The University of New Brunswick Saint John campus is getting a $38-million health and social innovation centre funded by the provincial and federal governments.

HALIFAX — Federal conservation officers have seized more than 7,000 lobster traps in the two years since violence flared in Nova Scotia when a First Nation tried to assert a treaty right by fishing out of season.

FREDERICTON — Dianne Cormier Northrup has helped her son and daughter, who both have intellectual and physical disabilities, communicate their key life decisions for years. Soon, her support role in that process will have a legal foundation.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she's alarmed by the shortages of space and staff in the province's health facilities.

AMHERST, N.S. — One of the Nova Scotia counties where the mass shooting took place in 2020 is planning to seek proposals for local policing, including alternatives to the RCMP.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.