Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Vaughn Mullen has grown weary of Nova Scotia Power's promises for improvement, as fall hurricane season brings lengthy power outages he feels could be avoided.

HALIFAX — The RCMP's promise to apologize for street checks that targeted Black people is being welcomed by the new African Nova Scotian Affairs minister, but she says she is more interested in what it will mean for future police conduct.

SYDNEY, N.S. — It's a battle in the skies — and so far, the bombing cormorants sowing scatological havoc in a Nova Scotia harbour are winning. For the second year, cormorants have squatted in the Sydney, N.S., harbour for their nesting season.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will remove the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax from the construction of new rental apartment buildings, Premier Tim Houston said Thursday.

HALIFAX — An environmental group has concluded that about 2,300 lobster boats operating off Nova Scotia are suitable candidates to switch from diesel to electric motor, a change that would slash the industry's emissions.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Investigators have been unable to establish what caused the fatal crash of a small plane near a Labrador airport last year because data from the aircraft's final minute in the air was destroyed on impact.

FREDERICTON — As protesters squared off Wednesday outside the legislature over the province's school gender identity policy, Premier Blaine Higgs met with participants on just one side of the divide — those who support his government's restrictions.

HALIFAX — A woman arrested during a housing protest two years ago in Halifax has been found not guilty of two of four charges after being accused of assaulting three police officers.

HALIFAX — The commander of the Nova Scotia RCMP says his force's planned apology to the province's Black community for street checks should have occurred some time ago.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.