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HALIFAX — The ongoing contract negotiations between the Nova Scotia government and physicians are critical to improving the health-care system, the newly installed head of the province's doctor association said Tuesday.

HALIFAX — George Dixon stood five-foot-four and at most weighed 115 pounds during his career, but he was a giant in the boxing ring.

FREDERICTON — Changes announced last week to New Brunswick's policy on sexual orientation in schools are "incredibly vague and shoddy" and could open the door to discrimination, the province's youth and child advocate warned Monday.

TRURO, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia have charged a man with abduction following a June 7 Amber Alert in southern Quebec. Jessie Wayne MacPhee, 31, is expected to appear in a provincial court in Truro, N.S., on June 12.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador’s police watchdog agency says a man is dead following an “officer-involved” shooting incident in St. John’s. The province's Serious Incident Response Team says the shooting occurred around 10:50 a.m.

BARRINGTON, N.S. — Nova Scotia firefighters are combing the charred woodlands of southwestern Nova Scotia for hot spots using a combination of infrared detectors in the air and blackened, steel-toed boots on the ground.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Atlantic Canada’s premiers say they want to expand a registry of physicians and surgeons to include other health-care professionals.

HALIFAX — Climate and forestry researchers say Nova Scotia must act swiftly to prepare for future wildfires in the province's increasingly vulnerable forests.

HALIFAX — Firefighters from three provinces, the United States and Canada's Department of National Defence are in southwestern Nova Scotia today to battle the largest wildfire in the province's history.

HALIFAX — A woman in central Nova Scotia was fined nearly $29,000 for having an unsupervised outdoor fire in the midst of a provincewide fire ban, police said Saturday.