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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick was the only province in Canada to record fewer police-reported crimes in 2022 compared with the prior year, data from Statistics Canada show.

HALIFAX — As thousands of Nova Scotians linger on a waiting list for a doctor, the provincial government has announced a new physician assistant program at Dalhousie University, the first in Atlantic Canada. The province is giving $5.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's chief electoral officer has called in the RCMP to help her investigate the provincial Liberal party's conduct in the campaign leading up to a byelection Tuesday.

WINDSOR, N.S. — On July 22, volunteer firefighter Logan Hope made a heroic rescue as historic flooding hit Nova Scotia, but eight days later — injured and off work — he was struggling to make ends meet. “I’m trying to survive.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore petroleum regulator says nobody was injured in a potentially deadly accident on the deck of the Hibernia Platform last month.

WINDSOR, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia say they have recovered a body believed to be that of a 14-year-old girl who was swept nearly 100 kilometres from where she disappeared in rushing floodwaters on July 22.

HALIFAX — A court has ordered a Halifax YouTuber to pay $175,000 for defamatory statements made against an Egyptian civil servant, but Nermine Adel Khalil says she has no intention of paying, or ceasing her comments.

HALIFAX — When Harold Brine realized he and 11 other men were trapped near the bottom of North America's deepest coal mine, his thoughts turned to his two-year-old daughter, Bonnie. "I was wondering if she would remember me if I didn't get out ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.

FREDERICTON — A freedom of information request filed by a University of New Brunswick professor has revealed that no parents complained to the province that they had been left in the dark about their children’s preferred pronouns.