Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Labour Department has cited the Donkin coal mine for a lengthy list of safety violations since the underground operation in Cape Breton reopened in mid-September.

TRURO, N.S. — A Nova Scotia man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 23-year-old man who came to the province from India five years ago.

HALIFAX — The recent deaths of two people who waited hours to see doctors at Nova Scotia emergency departments have spurred the province to announce changes aimed at providing faster urgent care for patients.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia prosecutors played video evidence Wednesday showing the alleged leader of a jailhouse beating participating in other incidents of jail violence.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier says he agrees that work is needed to restore trust in the province’s health-care system after the recent deaths of two patients who had waited hours for care in hospital emergency departments.

HALIFAX — A man accused of leading a brutal Halifax jail assault in 2019 had allegedly boasted that he could set off a jailhouse riot with a single phone call, a court heard Tuesday.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax seized a small arsenal of weapons from a home late Monday, including grenades, two swords, a spear, four handguns and more than two dozen long guns.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s opposition parties pushed Monday for more public accountability from the government over the province’s struggling hospital emergency departments.

HALIFAX — The alleged ringleader of a Nova Scotia jail beating in 2019 took part in a bloody stabbing attack on inmates at a Quebec prison 15 years prior, a witness testified Monday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

HALIFAX — Schools across much of Atlantic Canada are closed today as a sprawling winter storm continues to linger over the region. Rainfall and freezing rain warnings remain in effect for all of New Brunswick and P.E.I.