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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
BANGKOK (AP) — European and Asian shares mostly gained on Tuesday after U.S. stocks rallied on hopes the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% lower to 23,216.76 and the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.1% to […]
The RCMP says four men have been arrested for drug trafficking, arson, threats and intimidation after a year-long investigation on the South Shore. The accused were charged on Wednesday as police executed search warrants in Church Point and Belliveau’s Cove, following a 13-month investigation dubbed “Project Hammertime.” Police said they found drugs, drug paraphernalia, digital […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. […]
In the hundreds of pages of transcripts from Justice Department interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke glowingly of President Donald Trump, called him a “gentleman in all respects” and describing him as “friendly” with Epstein. Both Trump’s supporters and his Democratic opponents have clamored for documents about the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge Friday declined to dismiss felony charges against two attorneys and a former aide to President Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland […]
Justice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that is being challenged in court, declaring the government believes the funding is unconstitutional. In a memo sent to Congress, the Justice Department said it agrees with a lawsuit attempting to […]