“The Minister therefore committed palpable and overriding error when she concluded that the level of consultation was appropriate.”

"They're entitled to oppose, what they cannot do is strategically frustrate the consultation process as part of that opposition."

Lawyer Raymond Larkin told Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards there weren't sufficient consultations with the community before the project was granted approval.

While disrupting the railway is part of their action plan, organizers say the ultimate goal is to evict the RCMP from their community.

Margaret Miller says the approval has been amended to require Alton Gas to meet all applicable provincial, federal and municipal laws, including any future amendments to them.

Alton Natural Gas had planned to start the process of creating the caverns before the end of the year.

Local activists worry about the future of the Shubenacadie, as one Calgary-based company plans to use water from the 72-kilometre tidal river to create huge caverns that will eventually store natural gas.

The government says selling cannabis from a privately owned storefront will remain illegal in Nova Scotia, but Rebagliati argues that First Nations lands are federal jurisdiction and they are within their rights to set up dispensaries.

Const. Jennifer Clarke said the fire marshal's office has been called in to probe the blaze in St. Bernard, northeast of Digby.

Cathy Elliott, who was a member of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia, performed on stages and collaborated in productions from coast to coast for 35 years.