Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The Canadian Coast Guard has named its two new patrol vessels after northern glaciers.

HALIFAX — Tiny grains of sand from the Sahara Desert are to blame for the almost month-long lull in this year's Atlantic hurricane season, scientists say. But it could soon come to an end.

HALIFAX — Six clean electrical energy projects in Nova Scotia are receiving more than $192 million in federal funding as the province pushes to get off coal by 2030.

Two years after betting big on plane leasing, Chorus Aviation Inc. has pulled a one-eighty and agreed to sell its regional aircraft leasing arm in a deal valued at $1.9 billion.

HALIFAX — An expert who tracks Canada's mainstream media industry says Postmedia's pending purchase of Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper chain is almost certain to result in job cuts and a reduction in local content.

HALIFAX — Members of Nova Scotia's Black community say they are resilient and will rebound after five people were shot over the weekend at a reunion of former residents and their descendants of Africville, a historic neighbourhood in north-end Halifa

HALIFAX — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators briefly occupied a building at Halifax's Dalhousie University on Monday, as their encampment that had been on the school's downtown campus since May was dismantled by staff and security.

HALIFAX — As the Nova Scotia government announced it ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of nearly $144 million, opposition parties called for changes to spending practices that allow the governing party to approve extra spending without oversi

HALIFAX — A new provincial program meant to deliver on a campaign promise and encourage residents to buy local that's been called "gimmicky" and "laughably stupid" by opposition leaders has left some shoppers unimpressed.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax say five people were shot when two men exchanged gunfire near a crowd at an event in Africville Park on Saturday night. Around 10 p.m.