Nova Scotia News

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

A number of products containing dried milk ingredients are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella bacteria -- including hot chocolate sold in Cavendish.

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.

Investor losses in Westpoint could be recovered through the professional indemnity insurance of a financial planner that encouraged clients to invest in the group, a court has found.

A second person has died following a head-on collision between two motorcycles last week in Nova Scotia's Lunenburg County.

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

The prosecution went through an exhibit of 52 photographs with a Canadian Forces reservist in a military courtroom Wednesday in an attempt to demonstrate to the four-member military panel the working conditions and daily life faced by the soldiers at Kandahar Airfield.

Pictou County Dr. Gerry Farrell was a recipient June 23 of one of Cancer Care Nova Scotia's inaugural Excellence Awards in leadership, innovation, patient care and pioneer excellence.

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.

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

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.

A Canadian Forces reserve soldier choked back tears Tuesday as he described to a military court the scene inside a tent after a colleague was shot and killed at Kandahar Airfield.

Many of the most expensive parking spots are in financial centres. Clancy Yeates July 8, 2009 SYDNEYSIDERS who park in the central business district pay even more for the privilege than motorists in global hubs such as New York and Tokyo, a new study shows.

Synth-rock band Metric have earned a Polaris nomination for their fourth album, Fantasies.

The second in command of 1 Platoon testified Monday on the small arms training Cpl.

The common-law wife of a mentally ill Nova Scotia man who died 30 hours after he was Tasered by police says she told officers Howard Hyde was schizophrenic and needed medical help.

Former Sydney Swans star and AFL coach Daryn Cresswell has been arrested and charged with six counts of fraud, and now faces extradition to Queensland.

Racers battle for position during the Atlantic Kart Racing Series held in Summerside over the weekend.

The recession will sink the federal government into a $155.9-billion hole over the next five years and cost hundreds of thousands of Canadians their jobs, the parliamentary budget officer predicts.