Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has installed fewer than 10 per cent of the 200 self-contained, fibreglass shelters it promised to set up for the province's growing number of homeless residents more than eight months after first making the pledge.

Police in Nova Scotia are investigating two fatal collisions that took place on Friday and Saturday.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has rejected arguments from four defendants claiming they have treaty and aboriginal rights to sell cannabis at dispensaries on Indigenous land north of Halifax.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has ruled the province’s top election official should not have ordered the Liberal party to remove campaign signs during a byelection last year.

OTTAWA — The governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador urged a Senate committee Thursday to quickly pass legislation that would help establish a wind industry off Canada’s East Coast.

HALIFAX — A 26-year-old Halifax-area man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Dieago Downey. The victim was shot on March 14 in North Preston, which is east of Halifax, and died in hospital.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier is casting doubt on whether he will adhere to the fixed provincial election date his party passed into law soon after coming to power.

HALIFAX — Training and prevention measures have failed to keep pace with a sharp rise in school violence in Nova Scotia, leaving teachers and administrators unprepared to deal with the concerning trend, the province's auditor general says in a new re

HALIFAX — The Liberal member of Parliament for Halifax is pushing for Canada Post to unload a prime plot of land in the city core to be redeveloped as housing, but the Crown corporation is resisting.

HALIFAX — An unlikely experiment undertaken six years ago to see if palm trees could survive the fickle weather of Halifax came to an end this spring when the last two surviving trees failed to bloom.