Nova Scotia News

"Our government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is committed to improving and strengthening Canadian communities," said MP Armstrong.

No one was hurt in the Hooters fire. An arson investigation is underway at the scorched Hooters restaurant in Dartmouth.

Premier Darrell Dexter says he agrees with the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs that they should be treated on a government-to-government basis and he is willing to help them find appropriate facilities in Halifax to accommodate that.

MONTREAL a ' Montreal's Michael Moss feared he would die while on vacation in India a ' and he did.

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In 2007, Ernie Fage was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident. Former Nova Scotia MLA Ernie Fage is being sued for damages following a 2006 fender-bender that cost him his cabinet post.

The federal government has issued a tender call for companies interested in designing and building a new coast guard headquarters for the Maritimes.

Cops grill elderly couple for waving at little boy Pair accused of attempted abduction, questioned for almost two hours By The Canadian Press Thu.

Police have released the name of a Nova Scotia man killed in an industrial accident at a foundry in the province.

TRURO, N.S. _ Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture president Richard Melvin says primary agriculture is in crisis.< In his annual report he says operating margins are shrinking, debt loans are growing, farmers are getting older and there are now less of them.< He says it's all setting the stage for a virtual meltdown of the industry.< Melvin says ...

Four martens from northern New Brunswick will be released Wednesday near Whycocomagh.

Swine flu has killed two more Nova Scotians, the youngest yet to die in the province from the disease.

Labour officials and police are investigating after a man died outside a foundry in Pictou County on Tuesday.

A northern Saskatchewan First Nation has pleaded guilty to five environmental offences in connection with a fuel spill into Wollaston Lake in June 2006.

HALIFAX, Canada: Despite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:36 PM 'What the hell is he thinking?' Jane Taber I t all happened so fast.

Nova Scotia is setting up an independent unit to investigate accusations of police wrongdoing.

Pope Benedict has named Auxiliary Bishop Brian Joseph Dunn of Sault Ste. Marie as Bishop of Antigonish.

An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the war-ravaged country.

A soldier who fatally shot his close friend in Afghanistan in 2007 has applied to be released from prison pending his appeal before the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.