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HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia legislature committee is recommending that the province raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour six months earlier than planned. The committee says the minimum wage should rise to $14.

HALIFAX — Capping off a year that saw Hockey Canada mired in scandal over its handling of sexual assault allegations, the world junior hockey championship in Halifax and Moncton, N.B., opened last month under a cloud.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia says it has made conditional offers for work as continuing-care assistants to 65 people from a Kenyan refugee camp.

SAINT-SIMON, N.B. — New Brunswick RCMP say a 29-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder following the death of a well-known journalist in the province. The RCMP said in a news release that Philippe Hébert, who was arrested Dec.

Halifax RCMP say a green laser was pointed at the flight deck of a plane landing at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Mounties say they are investigating the incident, which happened before 7 a.m. Monday as a flight was preparing to land.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has upheld a Police Review Board ruling that said an officer went too far when he arrested a couple who had stopped in a city park after hours in 2018.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A court in Newfoundland and Labrador has rejected separate lawsuits filed by two former cabinet ministers who were kicked out of the Liberal caucus four years ago.

HALIFAX — The Omicron-targeting COVID-19 booster shot is now available to children between the ages of five and 11 in Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — Police say they are investigating after an attempted home invasion at a Halifax home, which investigators determined was not random.

CHARLOTTETOWN — The first of two increases that will boost Prince Edward Island's minimum wage to $15 by the end of the year comes into effect on Sunday.