Nova Scotia News

Joel Plaskett is shown in this file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan OTTAWA - Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett led a big night for East Coast musicians at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay, right, looks on as Gen. Walter Natynczyk, chief of the defence staff, answers a question at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Sunday Nov.

It was supposed to be a year of blood-letting, but Canada's big banks are poised to close 2009 with another decent quarter as strong trading revenues again offset big loan losses.

Jason Dahr stared straight ahead and showed no emotion as the jury foreperson pronounced him guilty of murdering his father.

Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac of Madison Violet recieve the award for vocal group of the year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards at the Dominion Chalmers United Church in Ottawa, Ont., Nov.

U.S. Senator John McCain says military exit dates and exit strategies in Afghanistan should not even be discussed until NATO gets the upper hand in its fight against Taliban militants.

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The Pope has appointed a new bishop to a Nova Scotia diocese shaken by allegations that its former religious leader was in possession of child pornography.

A 200-year-old Nova Scotia church is going to a Louisiana town, where it will be rebuilt to serve a congregation of 80 people, but not everyone is happy about it.

Coast guard searches for adventurer feared lost at sea Hubert Marcoux gestures in front of his washed-up 45-foot sailboat, Mon Pays, in the back of a home in Bedford, N.S., in October 2003.

The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

The Canadian Pressa 'Pictou, N.S. The first of two old Canadian navy destroyers slated for dismantling at a Nova Scotia shipyard has arrived in Pictou harbour.

When you go to a Jimmy Buffett concert, you're truly entering Margaritaville. Witness Buffett's so-called Summerzcool Tour which blew into the Air Canada Centre on Thursday night for a rare cold-weather indoor show, drawing about 12,000 people, a.k.a. Parrotheads, many wearing pirate, sailor or straw hats, with flowered leis around their necks.

Six people have been charged with possession of weapons and explosives after Cape Breton Regional Police apprehended a vehicle in Glace Bay.

TRURO A Truro man charged with sexually assaulting a girl under age 16 has been released on bail.

Top brass from Europe and the Americas, including U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, gather this week in Canada to discuss the future of NATO, the war in Afghanistan and other pressing security matters.

The U.S. Coast Guard says aircraft crews are searching for a Canadian boater who is overdue for arrival in Bermuda.

The Dexter government has approved a $5-million loan to pulp and paper giant NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says his province could have had an arrangement similar to New Brunswick's proposed deal with Hydro-Quebec, adding fuel to smouldering suspicions about the Quebec utility's expansionist ambitions in the Maritimes.

A small, high-powered fire boat that capsized in Halifax harbour last fall, dumping several firefighters into the water, had limited stability and it took only a small amount of force to tip it over, the Transportation Safety Board says in a report released Wednesday.