A 52-year-old woman has been released from hospital hours after being attacked with an axe in a home near Halifax on Wednesday night. Poli...
A 50-year-old Halifax man has pleaded guilty in Nova Scotia Supreme Court to sexually abusing three young girls. Myles Nelson Payne admit...
Last week we had a look at what around $800K could buy you in Vancouver vs. PEI. This week we're headed to Nova Scotia, with a budget of just under $2 million.
A Nova Scotia teenager who says he was wrongly named in the Rehtaeh Parsons case wants to clear his name. Adam Barnes, 19, said he wasn’...
HALIFAX - The RCMP say they're concerned posters that have appeared on Halifax streets in support of four boys accused of sexually assaulting Rehtaeh ...
Yesterday's day-long tribute concert in Halifax for Jay Smith, the late guitarist best known for his work with Matt Mays, raised over $100,000 for his...
Matt Mays, Joel Plaskett Emergency and other East Coast musicians will perform at a special three-part benefit concert and silent auction to help the ...
HALIFAX - The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Canada's largest independently owned daily newspaper, has confirmed it will stop publishing its Sunday edition...
A stolen letter written by former U.S. president George Washington led police to arrest a second man in a massive stolen artifacts case in the Halifax...
HALIFAX - A 249-year-old Halifax home climbed the steep slope of the city's downtown at a walking pace early Saturday, successfully completing the fir...
HALIFAX - A blockade of a Canadian National rail line between Halifax and Truro in Nova Scotia forged as part of the Idle No More protests has been di...
Matt Mays calls Dartmouth the New Jersey of Nova Scotia. If that's the case, you could say he is the Bruce Springsteen of the Maritimes. Songs about life in Mays' unheralded hometown located on the other side of the big city are reminiscent of how Springsteen so often wrote about the characters on the Jersey Shore during his early career.
On an average day, about 160-billion tonnes of seawater flows into the Bay of Fundy. This is where an ocean research centre decided to put their tidal energy test site. According to recent models, there is roughly 7,000 megawatts of potentially extractable tidal energy in the Minas Basin. Of that number, researchers say about 2,500 megawatts can be tapped safely. That's more than enough electricity for all of Nova Scotia.
HALIFAX - Alberta Premier Alison Redford said Saturday that Canada is facing new energy opportunities, citing the importance of exploring new markets ...
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A Liberal MP from Nova Scotia has paid a visit to the oilsands, saying that Alberta may be having struggles in accessing foreig...
Cemeteries as tourist attractions? In some cases, yes, and not for morbid fascination either. You'll find unique links to history, unusual resting places for prominent people and, of course, more than a few entertaining ghost stories. In honour of Halloween, here are the five cemeteries I've visited in the past two years that rank as attractions by themselves.
HALIFAX - A former Liberal MP has won the race to be the new mayor of Atlantic Canada's largest city.Mike Savage won the mayor's job in Halifax on Sat...
HALIFAX - The lawyer for a one-time Conservative cabinet minister in Prince Edward Island says the former politician will fight a commission finding i...
In September 2011, I began working with a fellow dance instructor to develop specialized dance classes for older adults experiencing health challenges. The support I received helped me advance towards founding the non-profit organization Happily Ever Active which operates enjoyable and accessible recreational programming for seniors in Halifax. Do you have a project you would like to launch? Here are a few tips based on my experience getting Happily Ever Active off the ground.
HALIFAX - It took more than five hours to stop a navy ship from leaking fuel into the Halifax harbour last year because officers failed to ensure ther...
Actors dressed in period costumes helped bring the War of 1812 theme alive at the Tall Ships Festival in Halifax, but the re-enactment left out Canada...
HALIFAX - The federal government is looking to finish a survey of an underwater shipwreck littered with tonnes of munitions just outside of Halifax.De...
In this exclusive excerpt for HuffPost from Richard Florida's new book, the author reveals that scientists and engineers, architects and designers, artists and entertainers and the growing ranks of professional knowledge workers -- what he labels as The Creative Class" -- now number more than five million in Canada, or roughly 30 per cent of the workforce. So where do they live?
TORONTO - The Grey Cup is going on the road.The CFL has announced the historic trophy will tour Canada by train as part of the Grey Cup's 100th annive...
HALIFAX - About 100 homes were evacuated Monday in Halifax after a brush fire erupted in a wooded area, leaving a dark cloud of smoke that could be se...
