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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland police have charged two men with sex crimes that allegedly occurred in 2019 in a residential area of St. John's. Bruce Escott, 80, is charged with single counts of sexual assault and sexual interference.

YARMOUTH, N.S. — A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital, in western Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Health Authority issued a statement on the weekend saying fewer than 10 patients had been infected.

A giant sculpture of a bird that long ruled the roost in a small New Brunswick village has been restored to its rightful perch, but it's not receiving a universally warm welcome home. Residents of Dorchester, N.B.

KEDGWICK RIVER, N.B. — Police say a 64-year-old man has died following a single-snowmobile crash in northern New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — Mounties in Nova Scotia say they're searching for a boater who went missing on Friday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — This year’s early Easter has put a damper on a Newfoundland tradition of eating fresh seal flipper on Good Friday -- or at least it has for the man most widely known for selling them in the provincial capital.

HALIFAX — A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk.

GAULTOIS, N.L. — Residents of a remote former fishing village along the south coast of Newfoundland had until Thursday to vote on whether to abandon their community. The provincial government will pay homeowners in Gaultois, N.L.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The president of Memorial University was removed from her role Thursday after she faced weeks of scrutiny about her claims of Indigenous heritage.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's Liberal leader announced today she will be stepping down, three days after the party made a poor showing in a provincial election that saw the incumbent Progressive Conservatives win a decisive majority.