Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — A new study says Canadian homeowners and communities can slash wildfire risks to buildings if they start taking steps like cutting buffer zones and using fire resistant construction materials.

EAST RIVER, N.S. — A Nova Scotia man died early today after his car collided with a sport utility vehicle on Highway 103. RCMP say they arrived at the crash site about 60 kilometres west of Halifax at around 1 a.m.

HALIFAX — The annual New Year’s Day levee held at Halifax City Hall has been cancelled by the mayor, who says he wants to show respect for the plight of those in a homeless encampment in front of the municipal building.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is planning to replace its fleet of four helicopter water bombers as it prepares to battle future wildfires in woodlands surrounding its cities and towns.

HALIFAX — The daughter of a wrongfully convicted Nova Scotia man says that even in death her father is being denied justice — and she is demanding a stalled criminal investigation of his case become "a priority.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s public works minister says her department will spend more than $500 million over 12 months on roadwork, major highway projects and bridge replacements, a figure up slightly from the prior year’s spending.

STELLARTON, N.S. — Empire Co. Ltd. reported a second-quarter profit of $181.1 million, down from $189.9 million in the same quarter last year.

HALIFAX — Santa Claus is a particularly big deal this holiday season in one Halifax-area community.

HALIFAX — Commercial harvesters of baby eels in the Maritimes say there’s little hope the poaching and violence that forced the closure of the lucrative fishery last season will subside in 2024.

HALIFAX — Cities across Canada are reporting a rise in fires, sometimes deadly, in tents and other shelters used by unhoused people — a situation advocates say is a tragic consequence of the country's homelessness crisis.