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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia ratepayers will foot a $163.7-million bill in 2023 to finance, operate and maintain the undersea cable that feeds the province electricity from Newfoundland and Labrador. In a Dec.

Halifax police say the death of a 31-year-old man in the city's downtown has been ruled a homicide. The victim, who has been identified as Ryan Michael Sawyer, was found unresponsive on the sidewalk of Prince Street at 1:15 a.m. Saturday.

BATHURST, N.B. — Police in Bathurst, N.B., say a 38-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man were found dead inside a vehicle.

CLARK'S HARBOUR, N.S. — The search for a missing Nova Scotia fisherman who went overboard on Boxing Day morning was suspended early Tuesday afternoon. Lt.

CLARK'S HARBOUR, N.S. — A search is underway for a fisherman who went overboard this morning off Cape Sable Island in Nova Scotia. Lt. Commander Len Hickey says Halifax's Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre received a mayday at 8:21 a.m.

Halifax Regional Police say a 31-year-old man has died following a disturbance involving several people in the city's downtown. Police say they found an unresponsive man on the sidewalk of Prince Street after 1 a.m.

Weather warnings remain in place across the country as major storms continue to dump snow and freezing rain on Quebec, Ontario and B.C., and batter the Atlantic provinces with heavy rain and powerful winds.

HALIFAX — The weather system that hammered Central Canada on Friday also brought Christmas travel woes to the East Coast, as holiday plans were delayed by flight and ferry cancellations.

HALIFAX — Some Nova Scotia hockey fans say their excitement for the world junior hockey championship is accompanied this year by tough conversations about Hockey Canada‘s handling of sexual assault allegations.

HALIFAX — He's 84 years old and receiving chemotherapy treatments for liver cancer, but Mi'kmaq elder and author Daniel Paul says his mission of sweeping away the "fairy tales" of colonial history must go on.