Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Environment Canada has issued weather advisories for much of eastern Newfoundland and all of Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has filled out the transition team intended to help forestry workers affected by the impending closure of the Northern Pulp mill by the end of the month.

HALIFAX — A man suspected of murder in Texas and arrested by police in Halifax earlier this week will go before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada to determine whether he should be sent back to the United States.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia SPCA says it has been awarded legal custody of 35 dogs and their puppies seized last month as part of an animal cruelty investigation.

HALIFAX — The Canadian Red Cross says 2019 was a particularly tragic year for house fires and drownings across Atlantic Canada. The humanitarian organization says at least 24 people died in residential fires across the four provinces in 2019.

Halifax police have launched an arson investigating following a structure fire in an apartment building. Halifax Regional Police say several callers reported smoke in the Victoria Road apartment building on Wednesday afternoon.

Police say they are investigating the event as mischief.

Between 30 and 40 passenger vehicles and big-rig trucks were involved in the crash

At 11 p.m. last night Lunenburg District RCMP responded to a report of a man pointing a firearm at someone at a residence in Blockhouse

Shortly before 4:00 p.m. yesterday, a collision occurred on Highway 12 in the community of Aldersville