HALIFAX — Ottawa is negotiating a $500-million bailout for Nova Scotia's privately owned electric utility, saying the money ...

Regulators in Nova Scotia have increased the financial penalty levied on Halifax-based Emera for failed deliveries of hydroelectricity from the Muskrat Falls power-generating project in Labrador.

Newfoundland's Nalcor Energy and Nova Scotia's Emera Inc. are partners in the Muskrat Falls megaproject. A new, Emera-owned company called NSP Maritime Link Inc. has been incorporated to apply to ...

Firefighters in Nova Scotia are battling the largest wildfire in the Atlantic province's history. Officials say the fire on the southern tip of the province has burned about 20,000 hectares ...

At River Raisin National Battlefield Park, a site in southeast Michigan that commemorates a crushing U.S. defeat during the War of 1812, visitors may spot a human-size muskrat — and perhaps even ...

An average sized star-nosed mole is 19 mm (7.6 in) in length and weighs 50 g (1.8 oz). The range is from southeastern Manitoba to Labrador and Nova Scotia, south and east to southeastern Georgia. The ...

Ovaska, K. and T.B. Herman. 1986. Fungal consumption by six species of small mammals in Nova Scotia. Journal of Mammalogy, 67:208 – 211.

Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. You start every Strands puzzle with the goal ...

This is the hilarious moment two women try to figure out if a woodland creature near them is a muskrat or a beaver, and are promptly chased away by the muskrat.

Trappers typically add millions of wild beaver, coyote, raccoon, muskrat, and other skins ... I headed north in a snowstorm to Nova Scotia, a center of the trade. Mullen had invited me to see ...