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HALIFAX — Oceana Canada wants Ottawa to exercise caution as it prepares to reopen the redfish fishery this spring following a decades-long moratorium.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is aiming to cut wait times for driving tests by spending $2.3 million to hire more examiners.

HALIFAX — A senior politician in Nova Scotia's rural Pictou County said Thursday his municipality was still struggling to clear last weekend's massive snowfall, partly because the area had been overlooked by the provincial government.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A family of five are among the survivors after a remarkable rescue from an apartment building that caught fire in Cape Breton during last weekend's paralyzing snowstorm.

HALIFAX — The Halifax Regional Municipality is telling people living at five of 11 authorized homeless encampments that they must leave, but some unhoused residents say they won't go until they have an option that's better than staying in a tent.

HALIFAX — The mayor of Cape Breton's largest municipality says she wept Tuesday night when a huge snowplow rumbled down her street in Sydney, N.S.

HALIFAX — Some residents in Cape Breton were anxiously awaiting rescue on Tuesday after a huge dump of heavy, wet snow over the weekend jammed entrances to homes, blocked roadways and prompted a local state of emergency.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Police Review Board has ruled that a Halifax officer who stopped a couple for being in a city park after hours should be suspended without pay for two weeks.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is asking Ottawa for help as the province digs out from an "extreme snowfall" that has prompted parts of Cape Breton to declare local states of emergency.

DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Nova Scotians already buried under as much as 80 centimetres of snow hunkered down and braced for even more on Sunday as a powerful storm hovering over the province was poised to linger well into a third day.