The province now says there is enough H1N1 vaccine coming that the high risk groups can be expanded. Pregnant women and kids under five were the target for the vaccines in Nova Scotia through the beginning of this week.

Officials say another two coyotes have been killed in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, including one believed to be involved in the mauling death of a young woman.

TRURO, N.S. - The band manager of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia has received a conditional sentence after changing his plea to guilty on various drug and weapons charges.

The province says it's ready, if Friday's Nor'easter comes in as forecast. The official beginning of the "winter season" for the department of transportation used to be December 1.

The city's integrated drug squad had an unusual find at a Middle Sackville home Thursday morning. A raid on a home on Lylewood Drive at six in the morning produced a significant quantity of date rape drugs.

Get your shovels and boots ready - all signs point to a nor'easter blowing our way late tonight. Snow, rain and snow mixed with rain are all in the forecast, and the Friday morning commute may be messy.

The Dexter government is facing some tough questions amid revelations it may not be able to keep a campaign promise to have all hospital emergency rooms open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Schools in HRM have hit a record for absenteeism amid the H1N1 outbreak. More than 10,000 students and 270 teachers were not in class on Wednesday, the highest one-day total of absences on record for the Halifax Regional School Board.

After rising 10 cents in the last two weeks, gas prices are about to reverse direction. News 95.7 is predicting a small drop tonight of about 1.5 cents a litre. That will move the price of regular self-serve to about $1.07 in metro.

A Nova Scotia man with a bizarre foot fetish is now in trouble with the law in Ontario. Michael Fells was convicted in August 2008 of assault, sexual assault and fraud involving a number of women he gave foot massages to after posing as a massage therapy student.

The Halifax Mooseheads dropped a heartbreaker in Saint John Wednesday night. The Mooseheads were in a 2-2 draw with the top team in the QMJHL, only to have what would've been the team's second win slip away with 2:03 left in the game.

The woman who was the common-law wife of Howard Hyde is missing. Hyde was the schizophrenic man who was arrested for domestic assault in November 2007. He then died at the burnside jail after being tasered by police. His death is the subject of a provincial inquiry.

The province's health officials are confirming the swine flu continues to spread across Nova Scotia. The province's weekly respiratory report shows there have been 377 lab confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus since September.

Hospital workers in districts outside Halifax say they won't threaten to walk off the job until early next year due to the province's efforts to combat the swine flu.

Concerned parents are wondering why health officials are not in schools, vaccinating children older than five. The chief medical officer admits, a lot of school-aged kids are catching the virus -- but few are getting seriously ill.

The provincial NDP might have a tough time keeping its campaign promise of having all hospital emergency rooms open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Barbara Hall with Capital Health says opening the Cobequid Community Health Centre 24 hours a day wouldn't be a good use of resources.

Firefighters in the region's two largest cities will not be responding to medical calls involving the swine flu. In order to keep them healthy to fight fires, paramedics for the time being will be the sole responders to flu medical calls in Halifax and Moncton.

While the H1N1 flu shots are slowly doled out, there is a study going on in Halifax to see how the shots are affecting people. Darlene Baxindale is an IWK research coordinator, her group is testing children and adults.

The Halifax Mooseheads will have a different lineup in Wednesday night's matchup against the Saint John Sea Dogs. Defenseman Sawyer Hannay, winger Jessyko Bernard and goaltender Joel Grondin and are at home suffering from the flu.

Nova Scotia's mental health court will not have the benefit of psychiatrists when it hears its first case Thursday. The experts are holding out for a new provincial contract.