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GRAND FALLS, N.B. — New Brunswick's maple syrup industry is considering using an insecticide to kill off forest tent caterpillars that have chewed through a portion of the province's northwestern woodlands this summer.

HALIFAX — An expert who tracks Canada's mainstream media industry says Postmedia's pending purchase of Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper chain is almost certain to result in job cuts and a reduction in local content.

HALIFAX — Members of Nova Scotia's Black community say they are resilient and will rebound after five people were shot over the weekend at a reunion of former residents and their descendants of Africville, a historic neighbourhood in north-end Halifa

HALIFAX — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators briefly occupied a building at Halifax's Dalhousie University on Monday, as their encampment that had been on the school's downtown campus since May was dismantled by staff and security.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.

HALIFAX — As the Nova Scotia government announced it ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of nearly $144 million, opposition parties called for changes to spending practices that allow the governing party to approve extra spending without oversi

HALIFAX — A new provincial program meant to deliver on a campaign promise and encourage residents to buy local that's been called "gimmicky" and "laughably stupid" by opposition leaders has left some shoppers unimpressed.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax say five people were shot when two men exchanged gunfire near a crowd at an event in Africville Park on Saturday night. Around 10 p.m.

FREDERICTON — The puffins of Machias Seal Island are feeling the heat. Scientists say there is a link between warming waters and changes in the birds' size and their beaks, as well as fluctuations in reproduction and the survival of chicks.

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