The Houston government is ordering 3,500 civil servants back to the office, unilaterally ending arrangements or agreements that have allowed those non-unionized employees to work from home, at least part of the week, for years.

The Houston government has modified regulations promised last spring to control short-term rentals. The new rules will take effect Sept. 30.

Nova Scotia's housing ministerhas added four new sites to the list of Halifax-area lands the province wants fast-trackedfor development, including a large area of Westphal in Dartmouth that could potentially see up to 18,000 new units built.

The expansion of the province's largest hospital complex has forced the closure of a blood collection site in downtown Halifax. Officials have permanently shut down the Halifax Infirmary site to make room for a transition unit that is being displaced because of the construction.

A patrol by RCMP, federal and provincial enforcement officers on Grand Lake earlier this month resulted in one arrest, four tickets and 115 warnings. Of the 50 operators screened for alcohol use, 40 tested positive.

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is hoping to open a boat school on the Halifax waterfront by fall 2025. The new building will allow the museum to dramatically increase the number of young people it can teach to build and pilot boats.

Nova Scotia's opposition leaders accused theHouston governmentWednesday of withholding the latest number ofNova Scotianson the need-a-family-practice registry.