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HALIFAX — A six-year-old girl and her parents were at the Nova Scotia legislature Tuesday to lobby for the province to cover the cost of using cannabis oil to treat her seizures.

FREDERICTON — Tourism in New Brunswick last year approached pre-pandemic levels, but the province's rental car industry struggled, a new study by Statistics Canada says.

HALIFAX — A historic building in the Halifax Public Gardens was damaged by a suspicious fire late Monday, marking the third time in less than a year that the beloved downtown park has been damaged while it was closed.

SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. — An investigation is underway after a man was found dead following a boating collision on a small lake in western Nova Scotia, police said Monday.

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.