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• Nova Scotia's 2 per cent rent cap is being extended but at a higher rate

  Nova Scotia introduced an amendment to the Residential Rental Cap Act that will see a five per cent cap come into effect Jan. 1, 2024, which will remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2025.

  

• Nova Scotia expected to table budget today with focus on health care – again

  Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives will table the second budget of their mandate today, and the focus is expected once again to be on health care.

  

• Nova Scotia Teachers' Union calls for government action on school violence

  Students at a Halifax-area school where two staff members were stabbed Monday returned to class Wednesday afternoon.

• Will Newfoundland and Labrador stay in the black? Provincial budget expected today

  Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial budget will be presented today, following an unexpectedly rosy fiscal update last October.

• 'We’re losing the coastline': Residents question private wall built at well-loved N.S. beach

  Crescent Beach in Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg County is a popular beach destination in the province, but its landscape has been changed by a large rock wall.

• Man wanted on Nova Scotia-wide warrant arrested: RCMP

  Police say a man who was wanted on a provincewide warrant out of Nova Scotia’s Digby County has been arrested.

• Credit card debt soaring at an alarming rate in Canada

  As prices and the cost of living continue to soar to new highs, so too is credit card debt, according to a report from Statistics Canada.

• New Brunswick budget has nurses looking for a reason to stay

  New Brunswick's health-care budget got passing marks from some, but nurses give the province a failing grade.

• P.E.I. nurses frustrated by stalled collective bargaining after election call

  Frustration is coming to a head for nurses on Prince Edward Island after two years without a contract.

• No plan yet to deal with piles of wood waste left from Fiona

  Six months after post-tropical storm Fiona left a path of destruction across the Maritimes, waste left behind from the storm continues to pile up in some areas.

• 'Nobody can live on that': Anti-poverty group disappointed with N.B. budget

  An anti-poverty group in New Brunswick is disappointed with what it saw in Tuesday’s budget.

• Moncton city councillor weighs-in on decentralization of homeless services

  A Moncton city councillor has shared his thoughts on decentralizing services for the homeless in the downtown core.