Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The Transportation Safety Board says an investigation into the December 2018 sinking of a lobster boat off Boutiliers Cove, N.S., found the vessel had been modified but did not receive a required stability assessment.

HALIFAX — An update to a yearly food price study anticipates restaurant food costs will be much lower than initially predicted, saying annual sales will be slashed in half amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating the death of a 28-year-old man in the Halifax area who was jolted with a stun gun.

DONKIN, N.S. — A troubled underground coal mining operation in Cape Breton has been permanently closed by its owners.

HALIFAX — Police in Nova Scotia are getting serious about imposing fines on people caught ignoring provincial orders aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is confirming three workers at separate long-term care homes have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in two days. The latest case is a worker at the Magnolia residential care home in Enfield.

NEW WATERFORD, N.S. — Fires that occurred overnight Saturday in Cape Breton have resulted in the death of one person in a seniors complex and forced over 40 other people out of their homes.

HALIFAX — The global COVID-19 pandemic is being described as the latest addition to the "perfect storm" facing Nova Scotia's beleaguered sawmill industry, leading some companies to cease purchasing fresh supplies of logs.

Those who attended a Bantam AAA Provincial Hockey Championship in Antigonish on March 12 are asked to monitor for COVID-19 symptoms

HALIFAX — The online theatrical piece starts in a faraway forest, moves across a parched desert, roiling seas and towering mountains before ending with a savage battle involving a furry beast. Not bad for a production that spans five minutes.