Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — A judge has dismissed a bid by a Nova Scotia First Nation to have new evidence introduced in a case involving the band's opposition to a plan to use river water to create caverns for natural gas storage in central Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — The Canadian warship HMCS Halifax has returned to its namesake port after a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. Hundreds of friends and relatives gathered at HMC Dockyard to welcome sailors home on Friday.

HALIFAX — Northern Pulp says it has started giving layoff notices to management employees at its Nova Scotia mill.

HALIFAX — Calls are mounting for the Nova Scotia government to reconsider the potential sale of a section of spectacularly rugged Crown-owned land along the province's Eastern Shore to private developers.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's independent police watchdog has confirmed it will investigate the recent arrest of a woman who says she was the victim of racial profiling.

HALIFAX — Discharge from the Northern Pulp mill will continue to flow into a treatment lagoon in Boat Harbour past the legislated Jan. 31 deadline for the treatment facility's closure, says Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil.

HALIFAX — Three judges with the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal have reserved their decision on William Sandeson's appeal of his conviction for the murder of a fellow university student in 2015.

HALIFAX — RCMP have used genetic analysis to identify human remains found on a Nova Scotia beach last September. The Mounties say the body discovered in Digby County was that of a 43-year-old man from Saint John, N.B.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's business lending agency has agreed to provide an electronics company with $2.5 million over five years if it hires 150 people. Nova Scotia Business Inc.

HALIFAX — The lawyer for a former medical student convicted of murder said Monday his client should be granted a new trial, partly because his defence team was allegedly "betrayed" by one of their own.