Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — In a legal decision described as the first of its kind in Canada, a Halifax sex worker successfully sued a client for nonpayment of services, but actors in the industry are conflicted about the ruling's impacts.

HALIFAX — With uncertainty looming over Halifax's Pride parade this year, smaller communities in Nova Scotia are stepping up and opening their doors during what some say is a pivotal time for LGBTQ rights.

HALIFAX — Transport Canada will tighten inspections of fishing vessels in the aftermath of a deadly Nova Scotia sinking in 2020, but the widow of a lost crew member says the reform doesn't go far enough to prevent future tragedies.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia byelection to choose a new member of the legislature for the riding of Preston will be held on Aug. 8, Premier Tim Houston announced today.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier has announced plans to build a publicly funded nursing home on the eastern outskirts of Halifax geared toward the needsof Black communities.

HALIFAX — A 15-year-old student accused of stabbing two staff members at a Halifax-area high school will stand trial for attempted murder next March. The two victims — both employees of Charles P. Allen High School, in Bedford, N.S.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge dating back to the time he served as head monk at a Cape Breton Buddhist monastery.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says his government decided to replace the judge overseeing the Lionel Desmond inquiry because Warren Zimmer's final report was taking too long to complete.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has dismissed the judge presiding over an inquiry that has spent much of the past five years investigated why Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in 2017.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's power utility plans to convert a coal-burning electricity station in Cape Breton to burn heavy fuel oil once federal regulations phase out coal entirely in 2030.