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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change .

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia still hasn’t signed on to the federal government’s pharmacare plan, and the province’s Opposition New Democrats are wondering why.

HALIFAX — The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is responding to critics by amending key parts of its legislative agenda, including its bill to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says China’s 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian seafood products are "concerning and significant.

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has introduced a bill to terminate an "unfair" contract for private nursing services.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Liberal government wants to make it easier to move alcohol across provincial boundaries.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Fisheries Minister Kent Smith is downplaying the potential short-term effects of a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian seafood products that is scheduled to be imposed by China on Thursday.

HALIFAX — An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales may have hit a dead end.

BIBLE HILL, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia have charged a 31-year-old man with first-degree murder in the 2023 death of his intimate partner. RCMP in Colchester County say officers responded to a report of a sudden death in Bible Hill, N.S., on Sept.