Nova Scotia News

FORT LAWRENCE, N.S. — Three people, including an infant, have died in a highway collision between an SUV and a car in Nova Scotia’s Cumberland County.

HALIFAX — They call themselves the "Dahn lab" graduates, and they're powering an unlikely, Halifax-based research hub for batteries designed to replace fossil fuels.

SIMMS SETTLEMENT, N.S. — A collision on a highway between a vehicle and an ATV has claimed the life of a Nova Scotia man.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s second largest municipality is vowing to fight proposed provincial legislation it contends will raise taxes for its residents.

HALIFAX — Unionized hospital administrative staff in Nova Scotia have voted to accept a new five-year collective agreement with the province. More than 5,000 workers represented by three unions had been without a new contract since Oct. 31, 2020.

NUTTBY, N.S. — The RCMP in Nova Scotia have arrested a 52-year-old man wanted for a weekend shooting that injured a woman as she sat in a car outside a motel in Brookfield.

HALIFAX — The Mounties say they've shut down a Nova Scotia-based drug trafficker who was using the dark web to seek customers across Canada and the United States. The federal policing branch of the RCMP says it received information from the U.S.

HALIFAX — To help meet the demands of Nova Scotia's growing population, the province is investing $100 million over the next three years to help speed up the recruitment and training of skilled tradespeople.

SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton University says it will scale back the number of international students it admits, after a recent explosion in foreign enrolment, but it's unclear if doing so will ease the housing and part-time job shortages in the region.

TRURO, N.S. — RCMP say they have charged a 52-year-old man who is still on the loose after a weekend shooting near a motel in Brookfield, N.S., in central Nova Scotia. Darren Trevor Jackson of Truro, N.S.