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The wildfire hit the Hammonds Plains and Tantallon areas hard, burning about 950 hectares and destroying 151 homes, but all those burned trees will not go to waste.

Tory Rushton has dismissed all but one member of the advisory committee created by the previous Liberal government.

The loss of a power plant on Nova Scotia's South Shore that is fuelled by biomass has left the region's largest sawmill and others scrambling to find somewhere to send wood chips and bark left over from their operations.

Posted: Mar 17, 2021 4:01 PM AT | Last Updated: March 17 The Nova Scotia government continues to work on bringing in recommendations from the Lahey review, which was delivered in August 2018.(Michael Gorman/CBC) There is still no word on how Nova Scotia plans to implement a key recommendation from the Lahey report that would see Crown land designated into zones, as advocates express frustration over a lack of answers and action from the government. Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin has said the province is working to expedite implementation of the forestry report's recommendations, an effor...

Forestry protestors who were arrested in December are claiming victory this week after a Nova Scotia judge’s decision, but the company involved in the matter says the judge made the right call.