Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Hurricane Dorian is expected to have an impact on the Maritimes later this week, with the National Hurricane Center in Miami indicating hurricane-force winds could strike Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast on the weekend.

HALIFAX — For years, fishermen off the U.S. east coast have faced tight restrictions on fishing gear and vessel speed restrictions to ensure their activities do not harm marine mammals, including the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

MABOU, N.S. — A 71-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash on Sunday in western Cape Breton. RCMP says first responders were called to the crash site near West Mabou at about 2 p.m.

HANTS COUNTY, N.S. — RCMP say a man is dead after a boating accident in central Nova Scotia. Mounties say they responded to the incident around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

HALIFAX — A man was arrested Sunday after a 15-hour standoff with police ended at a home in Halifax. Halifax police say in a release that officers went to a residence on Victoria Road in Dartmouth at 9:15 p.m.

HALIFAX — Research scientists are watching with fascination this weekend as a search for rare undersea life is being broadcast live by two remotely operated vessels run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration off the coast of Nova Scot

HALIFAX — A municipal official in Nova Scotia's Cumberland County wants the province to test the ground stability beneath a section of the Trans-Canada Highway adjacent to several sinkholes. Rachel Jones, chief administrative officer for Oxford, N.S.

HALIFAX — Localized flooding was reported overnight in the western Maritimes as the remnants of post-tropical storm Erin dumped more than 160 millimetres of rain in some areas.

HALIFAX — DHX Media Ltd. has named Eric Ellenbogen, a former president and chief executive of Marvel Enterprises, as its new chief executive.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's transportation minister says road crews are checking highway conditions daily in areas near Oxford as part of safety monitoring for sinkhole activity.