Nova Scotia News

Halifax police say they have asked Nova Scotia's police watchdog to launch an investigation after officers shot and killed a man in Dartmouth on Saturday morning.

HALIFAX — An environmentalist in New Brunswick says Atlantic premiers are using scaremongering tactics in their call for Ottawa to delay rules requiring refineries to reduce carbon in diesel and gasoline they produce.

HALIFAX — The Canadian Hurricane Centre is predicting an "average" season, saying the ferocity and frequency of tropical storms off Canada's East Coast this year will be decided by competing factors in the global climate.

HALIFAX — A 32-day fundraising campaign to preserve a huge and historic Acadian church in western Nova Scotia has raised only a fraction of the funds needed to save the building.

HALIFAX — The federal government said today it plans to spend $6.3 million on 53 new tourism projects in Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — Lobster populations around the Maritimes remain in good shape, though climate change may be to blame for a recent downward trend, the federal Fisheries Department says.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia provincial court judge on Tuesday acquitted a man charged in a 2018 sexual assault, setting the stage for a review of whether Halifax police failed to gather key evidence in the case.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's top health official says the province will soon be treating COVID-19 like any other respiratory illness. Chief medical officer Dr.

HALIFAX — Parks Canada says an urban wilderness area on the edge of Halifax has met a key requirement in the process to become a national urban park.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says the Health Department's wait-list for surgeries is shrinking.