Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Lt.-Gov. Mike Savage has released the names of the five people appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia for 2024.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A second person has been charged in the homicide of a Cape Breton man who has been missing for almost six months.

HALIFAX — Halifax RCMP are investigating a serious single-vehicle crash in Enfield. Police say emergency responders arrived on scene of a reported single-vehicle crash on Highway 102 between exits 6 and 7 at around 11 a.m. on Friday.

HALIFAX — Today is the third anniversary of the unsolved murder of Lee’Marion Shancez Cain, an eight-year-old boy who was shot while sitting in a vehicle with an adult in Dartmouth, across the harbour from downtown Halifax.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s budget deficit for the current fiscal year is now projected at $247.5 million — almost $220 million less than estimated in last February’s budget.

HALIFAX — Ottawa has hatched a plan to redistribute the wealth of Nova Scotia's baby eel harvest from large licence holders to hard-working, individual fishers like Suzy Edwards and Mark Weldon.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government wants Ottawa to reconsider a proposed pilot project that would redistribute the quota for commercial licence holders in the lucrative — and sometimes violent — fishery for baby eels.

HALIFAX — A panel of senior Nova Scotia government bureaucrats will examine the pay packages for members of the legislature, which have not increased since before they were frozen nearly a decade ago.

HALIFAX — A man from Nova Scotia is to appear in court in January on multiple child pornography charges following an investigation involving police in both Canada and the United States. Twenty-six-year-old Bryce Melanson allegedly travelled to the U.

HALIFAX — The rain is pattering on the sidewalk as a rendition of The Tragically Hip’s “Ahead by a Century” echoes inside St. Andrew’s United Church in downtown Halifax.