Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia released more details Monday about missteps the RCMP made as investigators tried to identify the killer's vehicle early in his 13-hour rampage.

Online grocery orders surged during the pandemic as Canadians heeded public health warnings to limit outings

HALIFAX — Anyone 70 years old and older in Nova Scotia can now book a second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. People in this age group are eligible for a fourth vaccine 120 days after receiving their last dose.

HALIFAX — The highly anticipated plan for reforming Nova Scotia’s ailing health system is "nothing new" and lacks detail, opposition parties said Friday, after the Progressive Conservatives released their strategy to fulfil their main election promis

HALIFAX — Brandy McGuire said she was in shock last month when she read the notice from the owners of Bluenose Inn & Suites that told everyone to vacate the property in suburban Halifax.

HALIFAX — The latest wave of COVID-19 infections in Nova Scotia may have peaked, a senior health official said Thursday. Dr.

HALIFAX — A funeral home in Cape Breton will be barred from offering cremations for two months following an investigation that confirmed a wrongful cremation last December. The crematorium licence for Forest Haven Memorial Gardens in Sydney, N.S.

HALIFAX — It was no surprise that beloved Antigonish, N.S., taxi driver John MacLellan gave what money he had to the local hospital in his will, family friend Margie Zinck said.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — Systemic failures and racism were partly to blame for the tragic chain of events that led an Afghanistan war veteran to kill his family and himself in 2017, an inquiry heard Wednesday at it concluded its public hearings.

HALIFAX — Lawyers at the inquiry into the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history are asking why — in an era when teens use apps to locate each other — the RCMP lacked technology to track their officers on foot.