Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Tim Houston, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, is seeking a second mandate as premier. Born: April 10, 1970.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotians are set to go to the polls in a provincial election called for Nov. 26 .

MONTREAL — On a strip of grass dividing a busy east-end Montreal thoroughfare from a block of residences in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district stand about two dozen tents, a reflection of a housing market that can't provide enough affordable homes.

HALIFAX — Halifax police have arrested a fourth person in a homicide case involving a 16-year-old boy who went missing two years ago. Devon Sinclair Marsman was last seen alive on Feb.

HALIFAX — A small town in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley elected its first all-women council last week, a "historic" result at a time when women continue to face barriers to entering local politics, says a member of the Federation of Canadian Municip

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announced a cabinet shuffle Friday, appointing Tim Halman as finance minister and deputy premier.

HALIFAX — About 20 kilometres northwest of downtown Halifax, at the corner of Hopeful and Belief, lie rows of tiny homes, each with their own brightly coloured porch chair, waiting for their first occupants.

HALIFAX — A Sikh organization says the body of a 19-year-old employee was found in a Walmart bakery oven on Saturday by her mother — a co-worker at the Halifax store.

PICTOU, N.S. — A Nova Scotia excavation company has been fined $80,000 after a worker died when scaffolding collapsed on one of its job sites. In a decision released Wednesday, a Nova Scotia provincial court judge in Pictou, N.S.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Police in New Glasgow, N.S., say a 44-year-old woman faces fraud charges after funds went missing from the Pictou East Progressive Conservative Association. New Glasgow Regional Police began the investigation on Oct.