Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is lifting two long-standing moratoriums on new buyer and processor licences for seafood as it looks to grow the multibillion-dollar sector, the provincial government announced Tuesday. Beginning Aug.

HALIFAX — Security experts say the theft of customer data from Nova Scotia's electric utility has the hallmarks of an extortion attempt by cybercriminals.

HALIFAX — A bail hearing will continue for a second consecutive day on Tuesday involving a Halifax teenager facing 33 charges including uttering threats.

OTTAWA — An Indigenous leader is calling on Ottawa to begin an external review into why fisheries officers allegedly arrested two Mi'kmaq fishers in March 2024 and left them at a Nova Scotia gas station without shoes or phones.

HANTSPORT — Nova Scotia RCMP were searching for a possible impaired driver in a vehicle that was involved hours later in a highway collision that killed five people over the weekend, police confirmed Monday. RCMP Cpl.

HANTSPORT — Nova Scotia RCMP say five people have died after a two-vehicle crash near Falmouth, N.S. Police say it's believed a Honda Civic and Nissan Sentra were travelling in the eastbound lane on Highway 101 between Falmouth and Hantsport, N.S.

HALIFAX — A police investigation is continuing into the disappearance of two young children reported missing last week from their home in northeastern Nova Scotia. On Wednesday, RCMP Staff Sgt.

HALIFAX — Voter turnout in last fall’s Nova Scotia election reached a historic low, continuing a downward trend led by the province's youngest group of voters.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is accelerating the environmental review process for a number of clean energy projects to meet its climate goals and get off coal by 2030.

HALIFAX — A licensed baby eel fisher says he's been sending evidence to the federal Fisheries Department of illegal fishing on a Nova Scotia river, but he says Ottawa is not acting.