Le procureur général et ministre de la Justice Cecil Clarke a annoncé la nomination de Pierre Muise, originaire de Tusket dans le comté de Yarmouth, comme juge au tribunal de la famille et à la cour provinciale. M. Muise a

Attorney General and Justice Minister Cecil Clarke has announced the appointment of Pierre Muise of Tusket, Yarmouth Co., as the newest judge of the family and provincial courts. Mr. Muise was appointed today, June 5.

Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal -- An update provided every Friday, listing all new and ongoing road work in Nova Scotia.

Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal -- COLCHESTER COUNTY: Masstown RoadThe Masstown Road, east of Exit 12 for about one kilometre, will be reduced to one lane for replacing asphalt and repairs to the Highway 104 overpass, until Thursday, July 16.Traffic control

Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal -- LUNENBURG COUNTY: LaHave FerryThe LaHave Ferry will be back in full service as of midnight, June 4.Local Area Office: 902-860-2430 Fax: 902-861-1911

Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal -- INVERNESS COUNTY: Port de Harve RoadPort de Harve Road north about 8.3 kilometres to Cape Breton Highlands Park will be reduced to one lane for crack filling and sealing until Monday, Aug. 31.Traffic control will

Premier Rodney MacDonald expressed sadness today, June 2, at the passing of long-time MLA Dr. Gerald Sheehy. Dr. Sheehy died suddenly on June 1.

The Human Services Department is investigating sexually explicit material found on a computer at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in northern Tasmania.

Despite being plentiful in number, Australia's two largest populations of koalas are so heavily inbred, they risk instant extinction, say researchers.

A two-year-old kangaroo shot in the head with an arrow in Melbourne's northern suburbs last month has died.

A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females.

A herd of hungry elephants has forced all 5,000 families from a village in northern Mozambique to abandon their homes, state media reported on Friday.

The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal has finished hearing an appeal by Animal Liberation against the culling of kangaroos on Defence Department land at Majura.

The founder of the entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is set to become the seventh private space explorer when he travels to the International Space Station in September.

Researchers at an archeological site in northern Peru have made an unusually large discovery of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago by the Incan civilization.

The link between cigarette smoke and asbestos illness has been highlighted by a new medical research project.

The Victorian Government is considering closing more waters to fishing off Victoria's south west coast to control a deadly abalone virus.

THE UGANDA Revenue Authority has handed over 100 pieces of ivory and a leopard skin to the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

NATIONAL Parks authorities, working with the Police Sub Aqua unit, yesterday recovered a man's body parts in three crocodiles at a dam in Mt Darwin.