Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Brittany Bernard and Paige Fitzpatrick arrived around midnight Saturday at the Toothy Moose, a downtown Halifax cabaret packed with college and university students revelling in the end of exams.

HALIFAX — Private and non-profit child care operators in Nova Scotia say it remains to be seen how their sector will ultimately be affected by the ongoing rollout of universal pre-primary for four-year-olds across the province.

Halifax's new poet laureate says everybody has a tale to tell, and for the next two years the accomplished scholar, author and social justice advocate says she'll work to uncover residents' untold stories.

HALIFAX — A Halifax man accused of hurling a vulgar slur at a female reporter during a live broadcast has been referred to Nova Scotia's restorative justice process.

HALIFAX — Nicholas Butcher insisted Monday that the Montreal-born yoga instructor he's accused of killing actually tried to kill him, as the defence closed its case at the second-degree murder trial.

HALIFAX — There's been another online privacy breach in Nova Scotia, this time involving an internet-based registration system used by Halifax's school board.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's capital is considering restricting flyer and ad mail delivery, potentially joining other Canadian cities that give residents the option of vetoing the uninvited paper clogging up their recycling bins.

HALIFAX — The family of Lindsay Souvannarath, the American woman sentenced to life in prison for plotting a Valentine's Day shooting rampage at a Halifax mall, says she would never have carried out the murderous plan.

HALIFAX — Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada's plans to drill a deep-water exploration well roughly 330 kilometres off the coast of Halifax.

HALIFAX — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna launched a public consultation on plastic garbage Sunday as Ottawa tries to develop a national strategy to cut back on how much plastic Canadians use and toss away.