Nova Scotia News

STELLARTON, N.S. — Canada's second-largest grocery retailer is reinstating a lockdown bonus for workers in areas with renewed stay-at-home orders, yet it's unclear whether competitors will follow suit. Sobeys Inc.

HALIFAX — One of the three people who allegedly supplied ammunition to the gunman who murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia last spring has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Halifax Regional Police are investigating a shooting that sent a man to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Officers were called to the area of Barrington Street and Richmond Street shortly before 6 p.m.

AUBURN, N.S. — A Nova Scotia high school student says she's back in class after being suspended for bringing attention to someone wearing a shirt that she found offensive.

PORTAPIQUE, N.S. — Creating a memorial for those killed in Nova Scotia's mass shooting is a delicate task at a time when families continue to grieve and communities are reluctant to revisit horror, say volunteers working on the project.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting eight new cases of COVID-19 today.

HALIFAX — Health officials in Nova Scotia are speeding up the province's COVID-19 vaccination program, saying all residents should get their first dose two months sooner than originally planned.

TRURO, N.S. — Family members of victims of the Nova Scotia mass shooting are expected to gather in a Truro, N.S., church on April 18 to remember their lost relatives one year after the tragedy.

HALIFAX — New Brunswick remained the Atlantic province with the most active reported cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, reporting one more death linked to the novel coronavirus and 14 new infections. A person in their 30s in the hard-hit Edmundston, N.

HALIFAX — Former federal cabinet minister Scott Brison has been tapped to head a new body that will advise Nova Scotia's Liberal government on the economy.