Maritime gas prices increase for first time in more than a month
Gas prices increased in all three Maritime provinces for the first time in more than a month.
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Section of Herring Cove Road in Halifax closed to traffic after vehicle crashes into power poles
A section of Herring Cove Road in the Spryfield area of Halifax is closed to traffic in both directions following a single-vehicle collision Friday morning.
Bear removed from Dartmouth Commons, area open to public again
Police are asking people to avoid the Dartmouth Commons area in Dartmouth, N.S., as they assist with a wildlife call for a bear.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has lost 205 firearms since 2020, including machine-guns
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N.S. RCMP charge 83-year-old man with sexual interference
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New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs officially calls provincial election
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Nova Scotia adding 14 pharmacies to primary care clinic program
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Head of committee monitoring response to N.S. mass shooting inquiry satisfied with progress
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Newfoundland movie 7 years in the making debuts in Halifax
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Halifax artist designs courts as part of dream project for Canada Basketball
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Moncton hub director 'blindsided' over motion to terminate lease
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Halifax area breaks temperature record from late 1800s
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Cape Bretoners react to federal reduction in international student numbers
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North Atlantic right whale entangled in Gulf of St. Lawrence
A female North Atlantic right whale is entangled in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is the third reported entanglement in the last three months.
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New Brunswick man dies in single-vehicle crash
A 48-year-old man died in a single-vehicle highway crash in Memramcook, N.B., on Wednesday.
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Saint John police search for man after chainsaw stolen from business
The Saint John Police Force is searching for a man suspected of stealing from a business in the city.
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Halifax Public Libraries reopen Thursday after workers accept new offer
Halifax Public Libraries reopened Thursday after workers accepted a new collective agreement, ending a nearly month-long strike.
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N.B. RCMP searching for three people after Salisbury shooting earlier this week
The RCMP in New Brunswick is searching for three people and a vehicle allegedly involved in a shooting that led to an emergency alert earlier this week and are asking the public for help in locating them.
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New freeway between Lower Sackville and Dartmouth, N.S., delayed again
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Moncton hub director 'blindsided' over motion to terminate lease
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New Brunswick man dies in single-vehicle crash
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Section of Herring Cove Road in Halifax closed to traffic after vehicle crashes into power poles
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Halifax artist designs courts as part of dream project for Canada Basketball
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Newfoundland and Labrador monitoring rise in whooping cough cases: medical officer
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Dispute over unrecognized Inuit group halts major conference for Canadian North
A 16-year-old biennial event aimed at fostering business in the country's eastern Arctic and northern regions has been cancelled indefinitely as a dispute unfolds between Inuit in Canada and a Labrador group claiming to share their heritage.
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RCMP in Prince Edward Island lay charges in fatal crash
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Senior dies after crashing vehicle into power pole in Greenmount, P.E.I.
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Heroic dog saved his northern Ont. owner who had a massive heart attack
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'Trove of extraordinary fossils' discovered in northern B.C., museum says
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Missing 28-year-old donkey found dead, believed to have been killed by cougar
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