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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's highest court released Friday a written decision explaining why it quashed the fraud conviction of a children's hospital CEO who used her corporate credit card to allegedly pay for $47,000 in personal expenses.

HALIFAX — Growing tensions over enforcement of the baby eel fishery closure in the Maritimes have prompted a call from New Brunswick’s fisheries minister for immediate federal action to stop alleged illegal fishing.

Halifax RCMP say three youths were motivated by hate when they burned a Pride flag outside their school in late April. Two of the youths are facing a charge of mischief, while the third is facing charges of mischief and abetting.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A former employee of a national non-profit organization for incarcerated men has been accused of demanding a sexual favour in exchange for a clean urine test.

HALIFAX — The first group of winners at the 2023 East Coast Music Awards has been announced. Singer-songwriter David Myles, who has four nominations, won album of the year for "It's Only A Little Loneliness.

HALIFAX — Bonuses of $10,000 have lured 148 nurses back into Nova Scotia’s public system, the province’s health minister said Thursday. Michelle Thompson said the nurses who agreed to fill vacant positions include retired, casual and travel nurses.

HALIFAX — The office of federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is rejecting allegations her department hasn't done enough to stop poachers from harming the lucrative baby eel fisheries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's fisheries minister has waded into a standoff in the province's snow crab fishery by asking the harvesters union to hold a secret vote about whether a work stoppage should continue.

HALIFAX — A woman accused of assaulting police during a housing protest in Halifax has denied intentionally kicking two constables, saying she was avoiding "kicks and stomps" from landing on her.

The University of New Brunswick has appointed three professors from other institutions to conduct a formal investigation into allegations of academic fraud against a former PhD student who is also a high-profile ally of former United States president