Paul Withers

Justice Pierre Muise said the penalty imposed on Tyler Nickerson, the owner of Fisher Direct in Shag Harbour, N.S., was overkill.

The Nova Scotia government is tapping the brakes on its plan to fast-track wind farms inside bays where it has sole control of development.

Alberta energy company Pieridae is pulling up stakes in Nova Scotia and abandoning plans for a liquefied natural gas terminal at Golboro on the province's Eastern Shore.

Three Atlantic seafood companies have faltered financially in 2023 with TD Bank as a secured creditor on loans totalling $39 million.

The land-based salmon farm is the only one in North America with zero waste discharge thanks to its proprietary water filtration system which constantly recirculates water on site.

On Thursday, fishing industry organizations claimed the "interim authorization" approved this year by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans contains a change that allows lobster traps supposed to be used under an agreement to provide a moderate livelihood for First Nations can be fished by non-Indigenous harvesters.

The entanglement of a North Atlantic right whale in Canadian lobster gear earlier this year will increase scrutiny this season on the lucrative southwestern Nova Scotia lobster fishery.

Developers of a large wind farm proposed for southern Nova Scotia say construction will begin next spring now that the company has secured Crown land near Milton in Queens County.

Donald Trump made the stunning comments during a Fox News town hall event while also taking another brutal swipe at arch-rival Joe Biden.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it looked, but did not find evidence of black-market shipments of baby eels or elvers out of Canada this year, despite widespread poaching in Maritime rivers.