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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — An investigation into a military helicopter crash at the Gander, N.L., airport last year says the facility has been running with reduced firefighting capabilities since March 2020.

HALIFAX — RCMP say they think they have recovered the body of a 31-year-old man who was last seen floating down a river on Nova Scotia's South Shore after his tube capsized earlier this week.

HALIFAX — A musician in a local heavy metal band and a six-year-old girl who loved dressing up like a princess have been identified as two of the victims who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia.

BROOKLYN, N.S.

Halifax officials said Wednesday the unrelenting storm that lashed the city and surrounding regions with as much as 250 millimetres of rain on the weekend was a one-in-a-thousand-years weather event.

SWIFT CURRENT, N.L. — RCMP in Newfoundland have issued an emergency alert regarding an armed person near the community of Swift Current. Police say 36-year-old Tony Farrell of Marystown, N.L., is believed to be armed and violent.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland police officer found guilty of raping a woman in her living room while he was on duty is once again seeking bail.

HALIFAX — The RCMP have called off a search for a 31-year-old man who they believe has been swept out to sea after a tubing mishap on a Nova Scotia river.

WINDSOR, N.S. — The Nova Scotia RCMP provided a description Tuesday of the terrifying power of torrential floodwaters that took the lives of a man and two children early Saturday and left a youth missing. Sgt.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP reminded people on Tuesday to use extreme caution on the province's waterways, as police continued their search for a man who went missing while tubing down a river about 80 kilometres west of Halifax.