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Nova Scotia has reported one new COVID-19 death within the latest reporting week from Nov. 22 to Nov. 28. But there are 14 more deaths from a previous time that the province has not specified, according to information released Thursday.

More than 70,000 homes and businesses are without power Thursday morning after widespread rain and wind overnight.

Premier Tim Houston’s cabinet is appointing the only Progressive Conservative MLA not re-elected in the last provincial election to a job with the Council of Atlantic Premiers.

Officials in the Town of New Glasgow are looking at how the use of wood could lead to a reduced carbon footprint and lower heating bills.

The province is changing how foster homes in Nova Scotia operate in a bid to encourage more community and social support for both children and caregivers.

A woman from Eastern Passage, N.S., is urging people to speak up about emergency rooms in the province that are too busy to adequately treat patients.

A rare fern has been identified on the land in the park, which is at the centre of a contentious proposal for a new golf course by Cabot Cape Breton.

Doctors Nova Scotia says physicians are being asked for more and more sick notes, despite a plea from the province’s chief medical officer of health for employers to stop using them.

Nova Scotia surpassed last year’s total of 9,025 new permanent residents almost three months ago.

Some farmers and land-owners in East Hants say proposed agricultural reserve zoning laws are too restrictive, and will have the opposite effect by not protecting farms at all.

Nova Scotia’s information and privacy commissioner is concerned after Cape Breton Regional Police failed to respond to a freedom of information request in August.

Clark’s Harbour Seafood is set to open a new $15-million lobster processing facility this month, as the China-focused exporter brings its investment on Cape Sable Island in southwest Nova Scotia to more than $45 million.

Teachers and the head of their union told a legislature committee Tuesday COVID-19 and flu infections have exacerbated the shortage of substitute teachers. They said children — particularly those who need extra help — are paying the price.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is calling on provincial regulators to reject a settlement agreement between Nova Scotia Power and customer groups that would see electricity rates rise by nearly 14 per cent over the next two years.

Devon Sinclair Marsman, 16, was last seen the week of Feb. 21 and was reported missing by family members on March 4. His disappearance was deemed suspicious in October.

The first tenants of a new supportive housing project could begin to move in before Christmas now that renovations on the old Travelodge Suites in Dartmouth, N.S., are almost complete.

The commission investigating one of Canada’s deadliest-ever mass shootings has heard from families of the victims and other groups participating in the inquiry one last time, nine months after public proceedings got underway.

Construction was expected to wrap this year on a Port Hastings, N.S., roundabout that will welcome drivers to Cape Breton from the Canso Causeway, but the project has been delayed while engineers rework the design to ease local concerns.

The commission investigating one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings has heard from families of the victims and other groups participating in the inquiry one last time, nine months after public proceedings got underway.

A look at what unfolded behind the scenes on the day of and days following the 2020 tragedy in Portapique, N.S., where a lone gunman masqueraded as a police officer and killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, in five rural communities over a period of 13 hours. CBC Halifax’s Angela MacIvor reports.

Environmentalists in Annapolis County say they have discovered several species at risk in a large wooded area of Crown land that’s also scheduled for logging.

Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Becky Druhan says the new drop in fees builds on a 25 per cent reduction that took effect April 1.

Richard Globe, 68, says paying more than $80 for a more effective vaccine is simply out of reach for most seniors in Nova Scotia.

The Lucasville Greenway Society has taken their community’s road safety issue into their own hands, and is raising funds for a new active transportation trail along Lucasville Road.

Locals are rallying around efforts to restore a 137-year-old lighthouse located along the Annapolis Basin.

Kids can head to the Cape Breton Regional Library to learn about coding with help from a small toy robot. It’s part of a larger programming push across the province to get more people using libraries.

Those walking along Gottingen Street in Halifax can now step into an art space created to honour civil rights activist Viola Desmond. The Viola Desmond Experience was created by artist Marven Nelligan and was unveiled last week.

A growing program through the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia is giving newcomers the chance to gain skills before entering the Canadian workforce.

Environment Canada has issued warnings for parts of Nova Scotia and special weather statements for P.E.I. and parts of New Brunswick Saturday.

Fire crews are at a scrap metal yard in Goodwood, N.S., Saturday fighting a fire.

Nova Scotia Health and Wellness announced this week that six doctors who already practise medicine in Nova Scotia will play a lead role in convincing other doctors to do the same.

The Nova Scotia government says it’s getting caught up in providing data on deaths to Statistics Canada — information that an infectious diseases expert says is key to more accurately assessing the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ottawa and the province are coming to the aid of cash-strapped transit operators across Nova Scotia with a one-time payment of $10.9 million. It is meant to make up some of the money those operators have lost as a result of fare losses due to COVID-19.