Nova Scotia News

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 ...

HALIFAX — A former student at Acadia Divinity College has filed a lawsuit against the school in Wolfville, N.S.

HALIFAX — A homeless man who died at a Halifax encampment last month had been fighting for improved income assistance for people living in tents, his lawyer said Wednesday.

HUBBARDS, N.S. — Hundreds across Canada are set to celebrate 2024 with a polar bear plunge Monday, maintaining a long-held tradition of braving the January cold for a swim to mark the new year. Joanie McNally, from Sackville N.S.

HALIFAX — Not so long ago, the largest community in Cape Breton was best known as home to one of the most toxic waste sites in North America: the infamous Sydney tar ponds.