Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The man in his 60s looks down for a moment at his dining room table, and then tries to explain how a shameful moment of violence was also the beginning of a healing journey.

HALIFAX — Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings for P.E.I., southern New Brunswick and northern Nova Scotia.

CENTRAL GROVE, N.S. — Police in western Nova Scotia are investigating a fatal crash that claimed the life of a man from Scotch Village.

HALIFAX — Municipal officials in the Halifax area have closed a popular lakeside beach after the discovery of a toxin-producing blue-green algae bloom. The beach at Springfield Lake in Middle Sackville closed Saturday.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax have charged a man with sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16. Investigators say the alleged attack was reported last Wednesday afternoon from the Value Village store on Chain Lake Drive.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is running an advertising campaign against the federal carbon charge, which takes effect Saturday in the province.

HALIFAX — A new method for counting homeless people is offering a clearer look at the magnitude of the social issue, with preliminary results indicating the country's homeless population could be three times higher than current estimates.

HALIFAX — A landmark legal victory has officially yielded a five-year plan to ensure Nova Scotians with disabilities can move out of large institutions and receive timely access to housing.

HALIFAX — An ongoing war of words erupted into a legal threat Thursday as Nova Scotia’s premier said his government was considering taking Ottawa to court over funding to protect a vital land corridor linking his province and New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — Mi'kmaw elder Daniel Paul, who collected the often painful details of his people's history, died Tuesday at the age of 84.