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HALIFAX — A Federal Court judge has ruled that the Fisheries Department failed to properly consult commercial baby eel fishers when it transferred about 14 per cent of their quota to First Nations.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is offering up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a shooting last year at an Africville reunion event in Halifax's north end.

HALIFAX — Almost two years after wildfires destroyed 200 structures, including 151 homes, in the western suburbs of Halifax, residents are anxious about the city's slow progress in creating more ways for them to flee if the flames return.

BATHURST, N.B. — Kassim Gaudet scored at 3:39 of overtime to lead the visiting Chicoutimi Sagueneens to a 4-3 victory over the Acadie-Bathurst Titan in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoff action on Tuesday.

HALIFAX — Halifax police have identified a 37-year-old man who was shot dead in Dartmouth Monday night. In a news release, the police say the victim was 37-year-old Cortrell Thomas.

HALIFAX — Victims of domestic violence in Nova Scotia are now entitled to more paid leave under the province's labour standards code.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power Monday after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice, with outages expected to last in some areas as storm cleanup continues.

HALIFAX — Two commercial fishers harvesting baby eels under new federal rules say they felt they had to stop fishing on Sunday night when a large group of Indigenous harvesters arrived at the river with nets.

FREDERICTON — Freezing rain left trees and power lines coated and roads slick Monday morning as Environment Canada issued weather warnings for large parts of the Atlantic region.

TORONTO — Freezing rain that coated parts of Ontario in thick layers of ice, downing branches and power lines, left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity on Sunday as the storm headed east.