Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The Liberals' election win on Monday should prompt some “soul searching” by the national Conservative party, says Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative premier.

MAVILLETTE — Police are investigating the latest case of someone allegedly firing a gun at the home of a lobster buyer in southwestern Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — In response to a spike in school violence across Nova Scotia in recent years, the provincial government has released an updated code of conduct to guide teachers, administrators and students.

BADDECK — RCMP have charged a 36-year-old man with dangerous driving causing death after investigating a collision that killed two people in Cape Breton last year. A 45-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman, both from British Columbia, died Oct.

MUSQUODOBOIT HARBOUR — The Mounties are alleging that a man from a Mi'kmaq First Nation struck a fisheries officer with his car as the officer was attempting to carry out an inspection early Saturday.

A Spanish pigeon keeper is surprised and relieved that a bird that went missing during a race in the Mediterranean has landed in Nova Scotia rather than being devoured by a hawk. On Feb.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s 10 universities have signed new two-year conditional funding agreements with the provincial government that include an undergraduate tuition freeze and an increase in operating grants.

HALIFAX — Over the last week, selected homes across Canada received poignant reminders of military members who fought and died in the final months of the Second World War.

HALIFAX — A teenager is facing multiple charges after allegedly threatening to bring firearms and other weapons to a downtown Halifax high school. Halifax police say the 16-year-old boy was arrested at 3 a.m.

HALIFAX — Police have laid a second-degree murder charge against a 60-year-old man in the death of an 84-year-old man in what’s believed to be Nova Scotia's latest case of intimate-partner violence.