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HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia charity is planning to serve at least 600 free traditional dinners over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to spread a little bit of holiday cheer.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As Gwen Perry prepares for a Christmas without contact from her son, who is locked inside a notorious Newfoundland jail, she wants people to understand that many inmates need help, not incarceration.

HALIFAX — Parts of the Maritimes that were hit by a weekend snowstorm are in for more of the white stuff this Christmas Eve.

MONTREAL — Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers to the rest of the country.

TORONTO — Public health officials reported another 10 cases of measles in Ontario linked to an exposure in New Brunswick, bringing the number of patients affected by the outbreak to 37 as of mid-December.

HALIFAX — Three critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the United States’ eastern seaboard this month, a number that researchers say is "devastating but not unusual.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A national park in Newfoundland has made the unusual move of opening in the winter so people can catch a glimpse of its rare and menacing new guest.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Lt.-Gov. Mike Savage has released the names of the five people appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia for 2024.

MONCTON, N.B. — RCMP say a child died several days after a head-on collision last week on a Moncton, N.B., highway that killed two other people. A 32-year-old woman from Moncton was allegedly driving the wrong way on Highway 15 on Dec.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A second person has been charged in the homicide of a Cape Breton man who has been missing for almost six months.