Getting off coal and hitting Nova Scotia’s target of generating 80 per cent of renewables by 2030 will be expensive for anyone who buys electricity or pays taxes here. But nobody knows how expensive. Neither Nova Scotia Power president Peter Gregg, ...

The RCMP’s investigation into the discovery of two dead bodies in Bass River a week ago on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Nova Scotia’s mass shooting and just down the road from where the Portapique massacre began is drawing criticism for ...

Provincial funding announced Tuesday will help West Hants not only keep up with its population growth but plan for the future. Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard was in Windsor April 23 to announce the province was providing about $3 million for a ...

A former Truro police officer has pleaded guilty in Dartmouth provincial court to two charges of voyeurism. JinHo Kim, 30, entered the guilty pleas Tuesday, when he appeared in court via a video link from Ontario. The charges involve two women who ...

A 71-year-old Southampton, N.S., man is dead following a single-vehicle accident in Mapleton on Monday, April 22. Mounties were called to an area off Highway 2 just before 1:50 p.m. and discovered a beige Toyota Tacoma had been travelling along the ...

A P.E.I. woman is dead and a Nova Scotia woman is hospitalized with serious injuries following a two-vehicle head-on collision in Upper Nappan, Cumberland County, on Monday. Just before 12:30 p.m., emergency services responded to the crash on Highway ...

The numerous names didn’t melt the ice, but seeing them painted on the ice surface melted countless hearts. For a third year, names, hearts, flowers, logos, symbols, jersey numbers, pawprints, and more were painted onto the ice surface of the ...

Conditional sentence for sexual assault Charles William Cleveland, 42, of Kingston, will serve a period of imprisonment in the community for committing a sexual assault. Cleveland pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 15, 2023. The matter was ...

A 38-year-old man has been charged after a firearm incident that prompted an emergency alert in Bible Hill, N.S. on April 19 morning. Following a complaint of a man carrying a firearm on Hillcrest Avenue at about 8:22 a.m., the Colchester County ...

Eighteen Nova Scotians died on the job or because of their work in 2023. That’s down from 24 deaths in 2022. The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia released its workplace fatality statistics on Monday. “I would never say there is good news ...