Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Health officials and governments in Atlantic Canada stepped up measures to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as three of the four provinces in the region reported several new cases.

HALIFAX — As Canadian universities begin an unprecedented shift toward online classes, Nicole Mensour is experiencing the challenges the sudden plunge into digital learning creates for students.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia recorded its first three presumptive cases of COVID-19 on Sunday as it announced additional measures aimed at reducing the virus's spread. The news means every province in Canada now has patients with the virus. Dr.

HALIFAX — For a Halifax father and daughter dedicated to taking on global infectious diseases, the novel coronavirus has led to their latest, exhausting push to create tests and vaccines to save lives.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is requiring public sector workers and public school children who travel abroad to isolate themselves for two weeks when they return to Canada, but Premier Stephen McNeil confirmed Friday the province has no immediate plans to c

SYDNEY, N.S. — Some schools in Cape Breton are closed today as police investigate what school authorities have described as a credible weapons threat to students and staff.

HALIFAX — The lawyer representing a Halifax police officer accused of serial shoplifting has applied to have her case dealt with by the province's mental health court. Police say the 37 charges against Const.

STELLARTON, N.S. — Empire Co. Ltd. says it earned $120.5 million in its latest quarter, up from $65.8 million in the same period a year earlier.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's labour minister says a series of rockfalls at Cape Breton's Donkin coal mine has prompted his department to bring in some international expertise. Labi Kousoulis says mine inspectors from the U.S.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier says a pair of byelection losses does little to change the dynamic for his governing Liberals in the provincial legislature.