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HALIFAX — Police say they've made arrests and issued summary offence tickets after an "unsanctioned student gathering" in Halifax.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's premier delivered a solemn apology Friday to residential school survivors in southern Labrador, nearly six years after it was first promised.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's government has launched a review into policing, six months after a public inquiry raised wide-ranging criticisms of the RCMP's performance in the province.

MIRAMICHI, N.B. — A group that used a pesticide to rid New Brunswick’s Miramichi watershed of invasive smallmouth bass has stopped the program after years of controversy over the strategy.

TRURO, N.S. — A Nova Scotia small claims court has awarded $1,776 to a Truro-area couple whose lawn was repeatedly trampled by their neighbours' wandering cows.

HALIFAX — Furniture designer Jonathan Otter has created a chair that represents a hurricane's devastating power — and the support needed after one hits a community — as part of a fundraiser for those rebuilding from post-tropical storm Fiona.

HALIFAX — The head of the independent committee overseeing how governments and the RCMP are responding to the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry says the public will play a key role in ensuring the inquiry's recommendations do not gather dust.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan are locked in a battle for health-care workers, as the two provinces set up recruiting efforts on each other's turf.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's government is launching a review of its freedom of information legislation after years of criticism that the current system results in blacked-out government documents and a toothless review process.

HALIFAX — Health-care spending and disaster relief for extreme weather have helped push Nova Scotia's budget deficit to $402.7-million this fiscal year, an increase of $123.8 million from the figure forecast in the spring.