Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — COVID-19 case counts shot up Saturday in Atlantic Canada's most populous province, while health officials in New Brunswick reported another death from the disease.

HALIFAX — The father of a two-year-old girl recovering from severe injuries in a Halifax intensive care unit is looking for answers after he said he tried to warn officials that his daughter was in danger.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax say they broke up a party Friday night and ticketed 22 people for failing to comply with public health orders.

HALIFAX — As the Halifax area went into its first full day of a four-week lockdown Friday, health officials reported another 44 new cases of COVID-19. Officials said 33 new infections were identified in the Halifax area, including at five schools.

MEADOWVALE, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County say a man faces extortion and harassment charges related to the release of intimate images.

HALIFAX — The recent delay in the Atlantic bubble opening has caused some travel snags for post-secondary students as their semester comes to a close.

PICTOU, N.S. — A Nova Scotia man who shot a young, Black co-worker with a nail gun received a conditional sentence on Friday from a judge who cited the province's history of racism in his decision.

HALIFAX — Atlantic Canada's largest city is going back into COVID-19 lockdown after Nova Scotia on Thursday reported its highest single-day case count since last spring.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A former manager with a clinic for veterans in Nova Scotia told an inquiry Thursday the facility had a shortage of psychiatric services when a former soldier was referred there.

HALIFAX — A provincial government study has concluded the collapse of a 68-tonne construction crane in Halifax during post-tropical storm Dorian was the result of a weld failure in the lower portions of the tower.