Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — At the heart of the multi-volume report into Canada's worst mass shooting lies a recommendation calling for governments to replace 19th-century principles about law enforcement with a revised notion of what police are for.

UPPER NAPPAN, N.S. — A largely rural municipality in northern Nova Scotia is looking into replacing the RCMP as its local police force almost three years after a mass shooting claimed the lives of four residents.

HALIFAX — The senior Roman Catholic bishop in Nova Scotia is holding meetings this weekend along the province's Acadian shore to discuss offers on two huge and historic churches.

HALIFAX — A six-year-old girl and her parents were at the Nova Scotia legislature Tuesday to lobby for the province to cover the cost of using cannabis oil to treat her seizures.

HALIFAX — A historic building in the Halifax Public Gardens was damaged by a suspicious fire late Monday, marking the third time in less than a year that the beloved downtown park has been damaged while it was closed.

SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. — An investigation is underway after a man was found dead following a boating collision on a small lake in western Nova Scotia, police said Monday.

YARMOUTH, N.S. — A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital, in western Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Health Authority issued a statement on the weekend saying fewer than 10 patients had been infected.

HALIFAX — Mounties in Nova Scotia say they're searching for a boater who went missing on Friday.

HALIFAX — A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk.

HALIFAX — A huge ice storm that knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Ontario and Quebec descended on the Maritimes overnight, cutting power in some areas and forcing school closures and delays across the region.