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The Canadian Armed Forces has inked a new policy on tattoos. The new directive, released Tuesday, prohibits any tattoos on the face or the scalp and restricts them from displaying any connection with criminal activity, nudity, or promoting or ...

Independent confirmation has identified Const. Ben Goodwin as the RCMP officer who was hit by a stolen car Saturday around 2:30 a.m. before shooting and killing the driver. - Facebook The RCMP officer who pulled the trigger in ...

The push to coax American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to visit this province has been so strong, even the premier is getting in on it. On his Twitter page this morning, Premier Dwight Ball posted, “Hey @jimmykimmel, what are you waiting for? ...

The province’s Serious Incident Response Team said Sunday that no new information is being released yet about a case that started out as a report of a stolen vehicle and ended in a fatal shooting by a Mountie in Truro early ...

Ever since he was a young child living in Gander, Lt.-Col. Mark Hickey says he had a fascination with airplanes. “My folks and my family say that, at four or five years old, I was always pointing at the airplanes at Gander International ...

Maria Weinberg is missing her big baby. The Annapolis Valley zookeeper is one of many people mourning the loss of Obi, one of the African lions residing at Oaklawn Farm Zoo. Obi, whose name means “heart,” died Aug. 6 after fighting ...

Premier Stephen McNeil announced Thursday that the province is paying for 16 more seats at Dalhousie University's medical school at $75,000 apiece. But Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives say it should have happened years ...

Trish Gallant’s memories of her ailing mother are more powerful than nagging urges to numb her pain with narcotics. “They had to keep her, bluntly put, drugged while she was on her last leg,” said Gallant in a recent interview ...

Jim Frost has spent the past 40 summers enjoying his lakeside property in Kings County, along with the ducks, loons and other parts of nature that go with cottage life. But after several years of seeing loon nests disturbed and eggs taken by ...

For one turtle, a sand trap at the Debert Golf Club looked like the ideal spot to lay her eggs. For the second year, a snapping turtle who’s been given the name Shelley has laid eggs in the sand at hole #7. “We thought she’d ...