Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Tropical storm Dolly has formed over the North Atlantic, but the weather system is expected to stay far from land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla.

HALIFAX — Indigenous communities in Atlantic Canada are creating their own utility to take charge of water systems in First Nations around the region.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Crown liquor corporation does not have an adequate strategic plan for supporting the province's growing alcohol industry, a new report by the province's auditor general finds.

HALIFAX — A skin cancer surgery that Nova Scotia's top public health official recently had to travel to receive is now approved for the province, and a Halifax dermatologist is planning to offer the procedure. Dr.

DEBERT, N.S. — A cleanup is underway in Debert, N.S., after a transport truck carrying over 1,000 propane cylinders caught fire.

HALIFAX — Health officials in Nova Scotia are attributing an additional death to COVID-19, along with reporting no active cases of the novel coronavirus.

HALIFAX — Hikers and other nature lovers are being urged to be on the lookout for ticks as they return to trails and forested areas across the country this summer.

HALIFAX — Two apartment building fires in the Maritimes have displaced nearly 60 tenants. As many as 50 people were forced out of an 18-unit apartment building in Kentville, N.S., just after 4 p.m. Friday.

HALIFAX — An idled Nova Scotia pulp mill says it has received an "initial order" giving it protection from its creditors as it attempts to restructure its finances and affairs.

HALIFAX — Opposition parties say Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil's refusal to reactivate several key committees of the legislature due to COVID-19 is harming public accountability and democracy in the province.