Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The tax base for municipalities across Nova Scotia isn't keeping up with the cost of services and programs, and local governments need to get creative in finding new revenue, including by asking Ottawa for a cut of personal income taxes.

HALIFAX — Grocery stores in Halifax started selling out of bottled water on Tuesday, after an electrical problem at a treatment facility led to a boil-water advisory affecting more than 200,000 people.

HALIFAX — Halifax Water says a boil-water advisory is in effect for the Halifax area and some surrounding communities.

HALIFAX — The Irving shipyard is testing methods to cut steel for Canada's new destroyers, though the navy says it will be about a decade before the first vessel joins military operations.

HALIFAX — The private lending firm that pushed Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper chain into insolvency in March says negotiations aimed at selling SaltWire Network Inc. and The Halifax Herald Ltd. have reached a crucial phase.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s police watchdog is in talks with a civilian agency that is interested in investigating the role of police in the wrongful murder conviction of Glen Assoun, provincial justice officials confirmed Thursday.

HALIFAX — Harold Anderson, a Halifax man known and admired for the elegant stilettos he wore on his jaunts around the city, has died at the age of 86.

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — RCMP say a suspected firearm that led to an emergency alert in Nova Scotia turned out to be a gardening tool, and the man involved has been released without charges.

TATAMAGOUCHE, N.S. — Nova Scotia RCMP announced today that they have charged a teacher from Tatamagouche Regional Academy with sexual offences.

HALIFAX — The federal government will help fund major renovations to the section of the Halifax airport where international travelers transfer to Canadian flights.