After 2½ years and 23 surgeries, a 12-year-old Vietnamese boy living in Halifax is nearing the end of his medical treatment to remove a large growth from his face.

More than 200 uniformed officers with the Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP attended the funeral of Const. Tony Carlisle on Saturday afternoon in Halifax.

About 85 seniors were forced from their homes by a fire in a highrise apartment building in downtown Sydney Friday afternoon.