A boil water advisory remains in place on Monday afternoon after a water main break in the area of Waverley Road on Saturday. As of Monday, the municipality says Halifax Water has repaired the broken main and service has been restored to the area. Still, residents living in areas including Waverley Road, Spider Lake, Montague […]
The Halifax Mooseheads fell 4-2 to the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies on Saturday night at Scotiabank Centre. The Huskies controlled the first period. William Vézina opened the scoring at 4:39, tipping a shot past Owen Bresson. Halifax native Charlie Baningno added to the Huskies’ lead at 17:34, knocking the puck into the Mooseheads’ net for his second […]
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement on Sunday morning, warning residents in Nova Scotia to expect more snow to fall on Monday. The national forecaster says an Alberta Clipper will approach the province on Monday, bringing snowfall amounts in the range of 5-15 centimetres. The statement says snow will begin Monday morning, starting first […]
The flurries forecasted for Halifax today pale in comparison to the freak snowstorm 108 years ago that dumped approximately 40 cm of snow on the rubble caused by the Halifax Explosion. A hundred years ago meteorologists relied solely on ground observation — no satellites existed to help track weather patterns — so when a low […]
RCMP laid more charges against a man after a member of the public found a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition abandoned off a logging road in Enfield. On Nov. 29, Mounties responded to a report of a man with a gun in the 100 block of Oldham Road and while en route, officers learned the man was last […]
A small dip in the price of gasoline as we head into the first weekend of December. In its weekly adjustment Friday morning, the Nova Scotia Energy Board dropped the price of a litre of regular self-serve by three cents to 136.0. The cost of diesel has not changed, with the price holding steady at […]
Just over 2,500 Nova Scotia Power customers on Peggys Cove Road woke up Friday morning in the dark after an outage knocked out electricity for those living along the shore of St. Margaret’s Bay. The utility’s outage map showed it running along the road from Upper Tantallon to East Dover. Over 25,00 NSP customers were […]
It may seem the Halifax area has been receiving a lot of rain as of late, but Halifax Water says it’s going to take more than that to make up for this summer’s drought. Brittany Smith, Communications and Public Affairs advisor for Halifax Water, told CityNews the precipitation is helpful, but voluntary conservation measures are […]
The province says that Nova Scotia Patients will soon benefit from faster, better coordinated care when the “One Person, One Record” system comes online at IWK Health. The government made the announcement on Thursday, and said the service will be launched at IWK on Dec. 6 and implemented provincewide at Nova Scotia Health by the […]
The premier is using his role as energy minister to call for a formal investigation into Nova Scotia Power. In a letter sent to the Nova Scotia Energy Board on Wednesday, Tim Houston says he has deep concerns about the utility’s estimated billing practice. Nova Scotia Power has said it’s been estimating bills because it’s […]
