Home of the first curling club in Halifax, the municipality is looking to commemorate the sport and its roots with a brand new light projection show. Spectators can enjoy the From Pond to Podium show, which tells the story of curling, its origins, ties to Halifax, and honours local icons who made it even more […]
One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 215 in Rines Creek. East Hants RCMP says it was called to the scene, alone with fire services and EHS, shortly after 4 p.m. on Nov. 21. According to a release, responding officers located a Nissan Pathfinder that appeared to have gone off the road […]
OTTAWA — Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level — which would put the burden on companies like Apple and Google, not individual platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Instagram. The company has been pitching the idea in meetings with both the federal and […]
HALIFAX — A farmers advocacy group says it plans to lobby the federal government for a guaranteed annual income of $50,000. The idea by the National Farmers Union came from its annual convention, held last week in New Brunswick. Farmers want Ottawa to set up a 10-year pilot project that would ensure they receive an […]
Oleg Kulebiakin’s first QMJHL hat trick propelled the Halifax Mooseheads to a 5-4 victory over the Baie-Comeau Drakkar on Friday night. The Drakkar scored the lone goal of the first period when Jacopo De Luca took advantage of a screen on Halifax netminder Nick Cirka and fired a puck into the Mooseheads’ goal at 5:36 […]
Halifax city officials say they are conducting an internal review after dashcam video shows a municipal vehicle nearly backing into a pedestrian. Resident Sam Sepehri was driving to work Thursday morning when he saw a “very close call.” Video from Sepehri’s dashcam shows a yellow truck pulling into a driveway then quickly reversing as a […]
The Halifax Regional Municipality will once again provide provincial funding to assist those renting spaces at Dartmouth Shubie Campground as the cold winter weather approaches. According to a provincial release issued on Friday morning, HRM will receive approximately $160,000 to keep up to 17 spaces open for rent and to support winter operations for 2025-26. […]
The RCMP says three people were arrested for driving impaired over the course of one day this week. The first incident saw police pull over a driver in a Cadillac on Highway 103 in Timberlea over the noon hour on Wednesday, after officers observed the vehicle being driven erratically. A 39-year-old woman from Timberlea displayed […]
LONDON (AP) — After being elected in a landslide last year, Britain’s Labour Party government delivered a budget it billed as a one-off dose of tax hikes to fix the public finances, get debt down, ease the cost of living and spur economic growth. A year on, inflation remains stubbornly high, government borrowing is up […]
The price of a litre of regular self-serve gasoline is holding steady after the Nova Scotia Energy Board made its weekly adjustment at midnight. Gas remains at 145.1 cents for the second week in a row. The same can’t be said for the price of diesel. The price for fuel has gone up 4.7 cents […]