Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Terrified high school students were barricaded inside classrooms for hours Wednesday during a weapons-related lockdown that ended with the arrest of a 15-year-old boy.

HALIFAX — At 30 years of age, Syrian refugee Kawthar Barho had seen her share of suffering and death before she came to Canada with her family.

Halifax city hall has called a "community gathering" in the city's main square tonight in support of the Syrian refugee family that lost seven children in a fast-moving house fire.

HALIFAX — A top Canadian naval officer is out 50 rare coins he valued at $38,000 with little to show for it, after a Nova Scotia small claims court found FedEx Canada not liable for the full value of his lost package.

HALIFAX — The ferry company the Nova Scotia government subsidizes to provide a service from Yarmouth to Maine is announcing a $1.3-million, five-year lease with the Town of Bar Harbor to use the port's terminal.

HALIFAX — Two law firms have been selected to represent users of the insolvent QuadrigaCX exchange who are owed about $260 million, most of it in cryptocurrency.

HALIFAX — Seven children, all members of a Syrian refugee family, died early Tuesday in a fast-moving Halifax house fire described as Nova Scotia's deadliest blaze in recent memory.

HALIFAX — Record earnings from its utility operations in Florida and New Mexico helped Halifax-based Emera Inc. beat analyst expectations in the fourth quarter of 2018.

HALIFAX — A proposed liquefied natural gas project says it has signed agreements with the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs, the Nova Scotia Construction Labour Relations Association, and unions in Cape Breton.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation says its third-quarter sales were up 9.2 per cent at $180.9-million. Beverage alcohol sales from Oct. 1 to Dec. 30 accounted for $163.5 million of the total, while recreational cannabis made up $17.