Police and customs officers seized machine-guns and assault rifles from at least two Halifax addresses Wednesday.

The weapons, including Uzi and MAC-10 submachine-guns and AR-15 assault rifles, were allegedly smuggled into Canada from the United States since March 2006, court records show.

INVERNESS — A harbour blockade remained in place in the tiny fishing community of Inverness, N.S., Friday as angry fishermen continued to demand a share of the local crab quota.

At least three Cape Island boats were blocking the 30-metre-wide channel to the wharf keeping four New Brunswick vessel from leaving to set traps in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

CORNWALLIS — Thieves used excavators to dig up and steal more than 100 tonnes of water pipe from alongside an abandoned railway bed that runs from this small Annapolis County community to Moose River.

The brazen thieves dug up 1.6 kilometres of pipe that once served as a waterline for the former CFB Cornwallis.