Nova Scotia News

GRANVILLE FERRY, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia have accused a 30-year-old man grabbing a woman in a campground, dragging her to a river and holding her head under the water.

HALIFAX — The federal government is asking an Indigenous group to recommend a new name for a Canadian Coast Guard ship that pays tribute to a British military officer who offered a bounty for the scalps of Mi'kmaq people.

HALIFAX — The winners of the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. In all, 11 books won 13 awards for short stories, poetry, historical writing, memoirs, fiction and children's stories. Ami McKay of Scot's Bay, N.S.

ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are donating $200,000 to an institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia to help promote Indigenous women's leadership.

HALIFAX — The union that represents faculty at NSCAD University in Halifax is challenging the school's decision to remove its president without providing an explanation for the sudden move.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is moving ahead with plans to further reopen the province now that it hasn't reported a case of COVID-19 in the past 17 days.

HALIFX, N.S. — Halifax Regional Police say a teenage boy suffered life-threatening injuries Friday night when two personal watercraft collided in Halifax Harbour. Police were called to the scene near the MacDonald Bridge around 7:15 p.m.

MAITLAND, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia's Lunenburg County continue to investigate leads but so far have had no luck in their search for a missing 29-year-old man.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, as the province moves closer to implementing fewer restrictions on travel within the Atlantic region.

HALIFAX — Prosecutors are arguing that fully revealing the information used to obtain search warrants following the province's recent mass shooting could compromise the "massive" police investigation and identify innocent parties.