Legislature is set to resume on Monday after taking the week off due to March break. After the short hiatus, MLAs return to Province House as NDP leader Claudia Chender continues to pan the provincial government over its budget cuts. The official opposition leader is calling on the premier to pause the budget, accusing Tim […]
The NSCAD strike has come to an end. After more than two weeks of NSCAD employees walking picket lines in front of the downtown campus, a majority of unionized staff voted 89 per cent in favour of arbitration. That is according to CUPE 3912 in a statement over the weekend, noting workers will be back […]
Bells are meant to be heard, which is hard to do if it’s locked away in a storage locker. When the big brass bell inscribed with “Meneely Bell Foundry, Troy, New York — 1899” was removed from beneath the span of the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, it was held safely in storage. Now that the […]
A multi-agency search is underway for a man officials say is a vulnerable person. Jason Lorette, 47, was reported missing on March 20. Ground Search and Rescue Teams from Colchester County, Pictou County and East Hants, as well as the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, are working alongside RCMP in the area near Harmony […]
Spring may have sprung, but the snow is still falling. Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for much of the province, with some regions expected to receive 10 to 15 cm of snow. The storm has caused the closures of some school districts around Nova Scotia. South Shore Regional Centre for Education says it […]
Halifax RCMP is seeking assistance in locating a 54-year-old man currently wanted on province-wide arrest. Darren Trevor Jackson, from Musquodoboit Harbour, is facing three counts of assault causing bodily harm, three counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, and failure to comply with a court order. Police […]
Detailed ledgers, business receipts and church records from Black Loyalists in the 1780s and onward are more than just rich historical texts to Andrea Davis. “This is a part of my history… it means so much to us as a community,” she said in an interview Saturday. Davis is an eighth generation descendant of Black […]
Nova Scotia is expected to have some fixed-wing water bombers in the province over the wildfire season to add to its current fleet. Scott Tingley, manager of forest protection with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), told The Todd Veinotte Show that the planes are coming to the province soon. “We’ve always had access to […]
The price of diesel has once again jumped significantly, as the global market price of oil continues to skyrocket. The Nova Scotia Energy Board invoked an interrupter at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, setting the price of self-serve diesel at 240.3 cents per litre in Halifax. That is an increase of 10.5 cents. “Gasoline and diesel markets […]
A spring storm is bringing lots of rain to Halifax and much of Nova Scotia, along with high wind gusts and causing outages around the province. As of 9:30 a.m., Nova Scotia Power’s outage map is showing more than 28,000 power outages provincewide. At this hour, those outages include around 4,700 outages over a large […]
