Nova Scotia News

STELLARTON, N.S. — Grocery company Empire Co. Ltd. reported its fourth-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago, but raised its quarterly dividend.

HALIFAX — A rural municipality on Nova Scotia’s South Shore has become the first to pass its own coastal protection regulations after the province abandoned its legislation earlier this year.

HALIFAX — The COVID-19 pandemic, students’ use of cellphones and school crowding may have contributed to the spike in school violence in Nova Scotia, officials say.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has installed fewer than 10 per cent of the 200 self-contained, fibreglass shelters it promised to set up for the province's growing number of homeless residents more than eight months after first making the pledge.

Police in Nova Scotia are investigating two fatal collisions that took place on Friday and Saturday.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has rejected arguments from four defendants claiming they have treaty and aboriginal rights to sell cannabis at dispensaries on Indigenous land north of Halifax.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has ruled the province’s top election official should not have ordered the Liberal party to remove campaign signs during a byelection last year.

OTTAWA — The governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador urged a Senate committee Thursday to quickly pass legislation that would help establish a wind industry off Canada’s East Coast.

HALIFAX — A 26-year-old Halifax-area man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Dieago Downey. The victim was shot on March 14 in North Preston, which is east of Halifax, and died in hospital.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier is casting doubt on whether he will adhere to the fixed provincial election date his party passed into law soon after coming to power.