Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The killing of a man accused of raping a Halifax woman has led to concerns from her lawyer that evidence relevant to her complaint of police misconduct might have been lost.

Halifax police say a suspicious death that occurred at a residence in Dartmouth has been ruled a homicide. Police say that was the conclusion of the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service, which conducted an autopsy overnight.

HALIFAX — It’s been 26 years since dwindling stocks prompted the federal government to close the once lucrative redfish fishery in the Gulf of St.

ISAACS HARBOUR, N.S. — A new $6 million cable ferry has been officially launched to serve the Guysborough County area of eastern Nova Scotia.

TRURO, N.S. — A portion of a federal law that kept a New Brunswick woman in a form of solitary confinement for 16 days on suspicion she had concealed drugs inside her vagina has been ruled unconstitutional by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting 70 new cases of COVID-19 over the last two days, as an outbreak of the disease in a long-term care facility continues to grow.

HALIFAX — Most towns and cities in Atlantic Canada returned to in-person Remembrance Day ceremonies this year — a marked change from 2020, when strict limits were placed on public participation at local cenotaphs because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

HALIFAX — Chorus Aviation Inc. is riding a fledgling recovery in the airline business driven by the return of domestic traffic in Canada and abroad.

HALIFAX — The second of what could now be four trials involving inmates of a Halifax-area jail charged in the brutal attack of a fellow prisoner started Wednesday.

HALIFAX — Health officials in Nova Scotia say a COVID-19 outbreak is growing at a long-term care facility in the province's northern region. A total of 22 residents and staff members at East Cumberland Lodge, in Pugwash, N.S.