Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Chorus Aviation Inc. says its shareholders have voted to approve the sale of the company's regional aircraft leasing business to HPS Investment Partners. The Halifax-based company says the $1.9-billion deal was greenlighted by 98.

WENTWORTH, N.S. — A 17-turbine wind farm in central Nova Scotia is receiving a $118-million low-interest loan from a federal Crown corporation.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.

HALIFAX — A candidate for Halifax mayor says the municipality's approach to homeless encampments has encouraged unhoused people from across the country to move to the city to live in tents — a claim housing advocates and city councillors say is untru

HALIFAX — The CEO of Via Rail told a Halifax business audience on Monday that although the Crown corporation has big modernization plans for its passenger service to the Maritimes, it needs to ensure its trains run on time.

HALIFAX — A Halifax-based company says it expects to receive US$25.4 million for projects aimed at reduce greenhouse gas emissions by mixing crushed limestone in rivers in Canada and Scandinavia.

HALIFAX — The fall sitting of the Nova Scotia legislature concluded Friday after just 10 sitting days, but the government says that was enough time to get important work done.

HALIFAX — Relatives of a 60-year-old man who took his own life in a Nova Scotia jail after long periods of confinement in his cell have launched a lawsuit against the province.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia woman has applied for a medically assisted death, saying after years of battling to receive out-of-country surgery for an illness that causes "indescribable" pain, she struggles to maintain the will to live.

HALIFAX — The federal Fisheries Department says an endangered North Atlantic right whale has become entangled in gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.