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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch says private companies took advantage of the province by billing "exorbitant" charges for temporary nurses brought in to help a strained health network.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — It's fledgling season, a time when animal rescue experts say they are inundated with calls about goofy-looking birds stumbling around on the ground.

CHARLOTTETOWN — A Prince Edward Island man is in France this week to trace the steps of a company of Island soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion 80 years ago. Greg Gallant, curator of the P.E.I.

HALIFAX — As a closeted gay teenager walking through downtown Halifax in the early 1980s, Daniel MacKay drew hope from the bright lights, giggles and thumping bass coming from a boisterous bar called The Turret on Barrington Street.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's reliance on private nursing services was not a good use of public money, the province's auditor general said Tuesday, noting that the two provincial health authorities and a government department failed to properly monit

EDMUNDSTON, N.B. — The Twin Rivers Paper Company in New Brunswick has been fined $250,000 after pleading guilty to allowing a failed pipeline to dump pulp and paper process water into the Madawaska River.

DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Federal fisheries officials say they seized 60 kilograms of baby eels worth between $250,000 and $350,000 at a ground transport facility in Dartmouth, N.S., on Friday.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's auditor general has uncovered evidence of school bus drivers failing to meet licensing, training and criminal record check requirements, saying these lapses are putting students at risk.

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HALIFAX — A disability rights advocate is raising questions about the Nova Scotia government's assertion Monday that it is making substantial progress in implementing a five-year plan to ensure people with disabilities receive better support.