Halifax Regional Municipality News

The director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology says the new Halifax-based research facility, which officially opened Friday, will play a leading role in Canada's efforts to stop the spread of swine flu.

Jerrell Johnston hugged his family before he was led away to prison for trying to kill a man at an East Preston, N.S., after-hours bar.

"You know the slow food movement?" asked a friend recently -- referring to the international effort to counteract fast-food trends.

A Dartmouth man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the April 2008 stabbing death of Gregory Fost.

A Halifax-area man was sentenced Thursday to nine and one-half years in prison for shooting a man outside an after-hours club in East Preston in 2006.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - The Canadians have come up with a word to describe the newly jobless.

Ice arenas are as Canadian as Moosehead beer. Getting federal stimulus money out the door on a shovel-ready arena project shouldn't be a problem then when the local government involved has done all the planning, has committed local funds, has secured provincial funding and was approved for federal cash.

Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly and Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter re-create the iconic Abbey Road album cover.

A Halifax-area woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of mischief for spray-painting her sister-in-law as she was on her way to her wedding last July.

The first two of 45 vessels scheduled to visit Boston for a five-day Tall Ships event have arrived.

House of Commons security guards on Parliament Hill still ask rookie NDP MP Niki Ashton for her identification.

A music lover since childhood, Peter Tingley has seen dozens of great acts in concert over the years, from the Stones to Pink Floyd and everyone in between.

String of raids result in 13 arrests Homes in Halifax area target of early morning operation By DAN ARSENAULT Crime Reporter Sat.

Police say 13 people are facing more than 60 charges after an operation in the Halifax area targeting drugs and weapons.

A Dartmouth man will stand trial in Halifax provincial court in December on charges of sexually abusing three young girls.

Three members of a Nova Scotia university men's basketball team will be tried together on all charges stemming from an altercation.

Coulton Brown, 19, of Tantallon, N.S., rescued a Montreal tourist who had been swept to sea by a large wave at Peggys Cove Tuesday.

A police dog was brought in to look for evidence outside the Lake City Motel in Dartmouth.

The political parties will nominate candidates, fundraise and campaign this summer because the government could be defeated in late September or early October, say party officials.

The sustainability of fisheries depends on the transparency with which coastal states incorporate scientific advice into policies, reports a study led by researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and published in the journal PLoS Biology.