Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's minister of lands and forests says he has not yet been informed of any change in an American couple's plans to acquire a section of rugged Crown-owned land along the province's Eastern Shore.

HALIFAX — A former Crown lawyer plans to proceed with a libel suit against Nova Scotia's premier, armed with newly released documents that shed light on how he was told to litigate a controversial Indigenous rights case.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Liberal government is proposing changes to the Labour Standards Code it expects will make it harder for employers to pay women less than men for doing the same work.

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S.

RCMP say a young man jumped into the driver's seat, started the vehicle, then drove away

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. — Lionel Desmond's licence to buy and possess guns was placed under review by firearms officials in New Brunswick in 2014 and again 2015, an inquiry into the former soldier's death heard Wednesday.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is providing a total of $10 million over the next two years for a new "innovation rebate program" for the forestry sector, aimed at companies that invest in their operations.

HALIFAX — A Supreme Court of Canada decision could affect whether government lawyers can use confidential documents to defend their reputations if political bosses "throw them under the bus," a law professor says.

HALIFAX — A black woman who alleges she was a victim of racial profiling as she was arrested in a Nova Scotia Walmart was cheered by dozens of chanting supporters as she appeared in court today.

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. — Just over a year before Lionel Desmond bought a Soviet-era semi-automatic rifle and killed three members of his family and himself, the mentally ill former soldier was forced to hand over all of his firearms to police.