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PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — The federal government is backing a massive wind-powered hydrogen project in Nova Scotia with a $125-million loan. Sean Fraser, federal minister of housing, infrastructure and communities, was in Port Hawkesbury, N.S.

CHERRY BROOK, N.S. — The federal government announced today $2.25 million in funding to honour the legacy of No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s only all-Black unit to serve during the First World War.

HALIFAX — Leaders from democratic nations, including a former Israeli prime minister, are gathering Friday in Halifax for a three-day conference on global security.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's prosecution service says it will proceed with a new trial for a former children's hospital CEO, after Canada's top court refused on Thursday to hear the Crown's appeal of a ruling that quashed her fraud conviction.

HALIFAX — Robin McGee has been living with stage four colorectal cancer for the past 13 years — a remarkable feat given the seriousness of her condition.

HALIFAX — Production at Cape Breton’s idled Donkin coal mine can’t resume until recommendations contained in a consultant’s report are implemented, says the Nova Scotia Labour Department.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's massive health-care redevelopment plan will cross a key milestone next week with the opening of an outpatient centre in suburban Halifax that is expected to treat 280,000 patients a year.

HALIFAX — A plan is now in place to create the kind of detailed flood plain maps that some of Nova Scotia's emergency managers have said they lacked when torrential flooding occurred in July.

HALIFAX — Better working conditions and more safety considerations are needed to ensure Nova Scotia can recruit and keep workers in its overstressed home-care sector, a pair of union leaders told a legislature committee Tuesday.

HALIFAX — As she stood outside her Halifax home recently and recalled the acrid smoke that filled the horizon last spring, Antoniella Assalone wondered whether she will have a safe escape route if another wildfire comes.