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Happy holidays!

The Boston Common in Boston, Mass., will shine bright Thursday night as that city marks its 80th annual Boston Tree Lighting ceremony.

The Halifax Explosion was the largest mass-blinding event in Canadian history, and a new play aims to tell part of the story in a way that's accessible to blind people and to the deaf community.

The Boston Common in Boston, Mass., will shine bright Thursday night as that city marks its 80th annual Boston Tree Lighting ceremony.

News releases from the Government of Nova Scotia

This year marks the 50th time a tree has been donated and commemorates 104 years of friendship between Nova Scotia and the people of Boston.

Etienne Gaudet has spent the last year driving on back roads, knocking on doors and at times searching through the dense woods of New Brunswick to find gravestones of soldiers.

HALIFAX — Silenced for more than a century, two massive bells were expected to be reinstalled today inside the clock tower at Halifax City Hall — including one that was likely damaged by the Halifax Explosion in 1917

HALIFAX — Silenced for more than a century, two massive bells were expected to be reinstalled today inside the clock tower at Halifax City Hall — including one that was likely damaged by the Halifax Explosion in 1917

Silenced for more than a century, two massive bells were expected to be reinstalled Friday inside the clock tower at Halifax City Hall -- including one that was likely damaged by the Halifax Explosion in 1917.