Nova Scotia News

A Nova Scotia woman in her 50s has died from H1N1-related complications, health officials announced Monday.

A majority of Canadians believe observing two minutes of silence on Remembrance Day should be mandatory rather than voluntary, suggests a new poll released to Canwest News Service.

This is a reminder that you and all interested parties of the public are invited to the second round of public stakeholder consultations.

Raymond Lahey, 69, who stepped down abruptly as the bishop of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, at the Ottawa Police station, in a file picture.

A New Waterford family group and an Inverness County fiddler are among the latest Music Nova Scotia award winners.

Two Middle Sackville brothers are facing drug charges following a raid on their family's home.

It's been seven long years since the official start of Canada's mission in Afghanistan, a period marked by equal parts confusion, stoicism and pride.

Roman Catholics in northern Nova Scotia watched with shock and sadness on Thursday the television images of their once respected bishop surrendering to police in Ottawa.

Paulette and Robin Tedford stand with Tom and Angela Reid as they visit the cenotaph in Truro, NS, Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

The Nova Scotia Teachers Union is using flawed logic by suggesting the provincial government should order pregnant teachers to stay away from the classroom to prevent them from getting swine flu, the province's chief public health officer said Friday.

We just returned home to the USA from being at our Nova Scotian home for awhile-a welcomed respite.

A highway twinning in Cape Breton and two bridge improvement projects are in line for $49.5 million in federal-provincial infrastructure funding.

At 15, Krista Lindsay decided she'd had enough of Grade 10. Disinterested in school and trapped in a cycle of skipping classes, getting suspended and apologizing to the principal, her Halifax high school finally decided it was done, too.

Federal cabinet ministers blitzed the country with economic stimulus announcements Friday in the face of dismal employment numbers that leave the Harper government far short of its job-creation targets.

Local residents who served during the Second World War include, clockwise from left, Charlie Bell, Charles Darrow and Richard Olsen.

The RCMP are urging drivers to slow down as the first snowfall of the season hits Nova Scotia.

The band manager of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia has received a conditional sentence after changing his plea to guilty on various drug and weapons charges.

Jon Driver was pleased Thursday when he heard Simon Fraser University had ranked first in the comprehensive category of the annual Maclean's magazine university rankings, but he still took the news with a grain of salt.

Three more fires have been reported in a community in Cape Breton, bringing the total to five in less than 24 hours.

Karen Kormanaski at the inquiry into her common-law husband's death in July. A missing person report has been filed for the common-law wife of Howard Hyde, a schizophrenic man whose death in police custody is the subject of a public inquiry.