Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia constituency assistant who faced a violent attack at work is calling for government funding of a second employee at legislators' offices to counter the aggression front-line workers face at politicians' workplaces.

HALIFAX — The first of 200 single-unit pallet shelters purchased to help Nova Scotia’s homeless population are expected to be ready for occupancy sometime next month, a provincial government official confirmed Wednesday.

HALIFAX — A large winter storm was forecast to continue making its way through Atlantic Canada Wednesday evening, bringing with it a combination of snow, rain and high winds.

Halifax's historic Northwest Arm, an inlet famous as a playground for boaters, has received protection from surrounding landowners who want to fill in the ocean with soil and rock.

HALIFAX — As the illicit drugs that have devastated Western and Central Canada become more prevalent in Nova Scotia, a Halifax physician is renewing calls to expand access to "safer opioid supply" treatment to prevent overdoses and deaths.

HALIFAX — The RCMP have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

HALIFAX — Canada Post is being asked to consider honouring a veteran of the first and second world wars who entertained Canadian troops as a female impersonator.

HALIFAX — The Halifax Regional Municipality and Nova Scotia government are opening a temporary homeless shelter near the city's downtown in two weeks.

MARGAREE VALLEY, N.S. — Nova Scotia RCMP say a 48-year-old Inverness man has died after a snowmobile crash in Margaree Valley. Police say the man was operating a snowmobile on a marked trail when he struck a tree Friday morning.

HALIFAX — A secluded and overgrown cemetery in rural Cape Breton, the final resting place for some of Nova Scotia's earliest settlers, is slowly crumbling into a nearby river. "They would be descendants of the Scots ...