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HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says workers will benefit from the province's largest ever increase to the minimum wage later this year, but an advocacy group says $16.50 an hour doesn't come close to being a living wage.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — About two dozen people chanted and waved signs outside Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest jail Wednesday, demanding better care for inmates with addictions and mental health problems.

HALIFAX — A climate change think tank has released a guide encouraging municipalities to assign specific dollar values to natural assets ranging from wetlands to coastal dunes.

FREDERICTON — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it has dropped its legal challenge against the New Brunswick government because the province reversed a "harmful" policy on transgender students.

HALIFAX — Halifax police say a 21-year-old woman has died after she was hit on a marked crosswalk by an impaired driver. Around 5:45 p.m.

HALIFAX — A councillor with Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia says a cleanup plan approved by Ottawa will mean further delays in the removal of contaminated sludge that been a scourge on his community for decades.

HALIFAX — The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary for two orcas from a marine park in France has been rejected by the French government. Lori Marino, president of the U.S.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador students was breached in a cyberattack targeting an information system used by schools across the country.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's government has appointed a team for the next round of negotiations with Hydro-Québec, as the provinces' public utilities work to hammer out a sweeping energy deal.

HALIFAX — Ottawa has issued the latest version of how it is proposing to distribute licences for the lucrative baby eel fishery in the Maritimes.