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Higher government spending is expected to boost P.E.I.'s gross domestic product for 2010, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council said in its annual economic outlook for the four Atlantic Provinces released Monday.

Paulette and Robin Tedford stand with Tom and Angela Reid as they visit the cenotaph in Truro, NS, Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

Federal cabinet ministers blitzed the country with economic stimulus announcements Friday in the face of dismal employment numbers that leave the Harper government far short of its job-creation targets.

Firefighters and police in the Halifax region are receiving the H1N1 vaccine this week, though they're not on the list of priority groups.

AltaGas Income Trust has purchased the remaining 75 per cent of Heritage Gas Ltd.

Hospital workers in districts outside Halifax will not be going on strike while the province combats the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic.

The first public H1N1 vaccination clinics in the Halifax region opened Monday, with long lines of parents, including many upset with the latest immunization restrictions.

Legendary Canadian songbird Anne Murray has presented a Nova Scotia music instructor with this year's MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award.

Parks Canada says it believes a coyote killed last week is one of the animals involved in the shocking death of a young hiker on a Cape Breton trail.

Police in Halifax are investigating after more shots were fired Saturday night in the Spryfield area.

A young Canadian folk singer who had just set off on a solo tour to boost a promising musical career died Wednesday after being mauled by two coyotes in what is believed to be one of the country's first fatal attacks by the animals.

The mother of Taylor Mitchell, a young folksinger who was killed by coyotes in Nova Scotia, says her daughter was a passionate environmentalist who would have opposed the killing of the two animals responsible for the attack.

Fred Connors is an ideal ambassador for Halifax. He is not shy about expressing his love for the city and his belief that Halifax is gay-friendly destination.

More aging infrastructure in metro is in disrepair and, as a result, city hall is restricting the maximum vehicle weight on five bridges over the rail cut in south-end Halifax.

Toronto musician Taylor Mitchell, who was hiking in Cape Breton, N.S., when she was attacked by coyotes on Oct.

29 , in Halifax . More than 400 police officers, judges, lawyers, academics, and corrections and court staff from across Canada have traveled to take part in the three-day Congress.

Halifax, Nova Scotia - A Canadian woman has died from injuries sustained when she was attacked by two coyotes while hiking in eastern Canada.

DENVER -- Despite her advancing years and front wrists bowed at an awful angle from a condition called hyperextended carpus, Willow frolics happily with other dogs and splashes with abandon in any body of water she can find.

A Toronto-area woman has died after being attacked by two coyotes Tuesday in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia RCMP have confirmed.

One suggestion in the transit plan is to ban cars from portions of Spring Garden Road and make them bus-only. Halifax regional councillors are reviewing a five-year transit plan that could mean a new parking tax and higher bridge tolls to pay for better bus and ferry service.