Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia still hasn’t signed on to the federal government’s pharmacare plan, and the province’s Opposition New Democrats are wondering why.

HALIFAX — The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is responding to critics by amending key parts of its legislative agenda, including its bill to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Fisheries Minister Kent Smith is downplaying the potential short-term effects of a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian seafood products that is scheduled to be imposed by China on Thursday.

HALIFAX — An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales may have hit a dead end.

BIBLE HILL, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia have charged a 31-year-old man with first-degree murder in the 2023 death of his intimate partner. RCMP in Colchester County say officers responded to a report of a sudden death in Bible Hill, N.S., on Sept.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s opposition leaders are questioning an undisclosed trip by a provincial cabinet minister to U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

HALIFAX — Academics and students told a Nova Scotia legislature committee Tuesday that a bill giving the government more control over the province’s 10 universities is a case of overreach that could threaten academic freedoms.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia government bill that would open the door to fracking for fossil fuels and exploring for uranium is dangerous and should be scrapped, environmental advocates and physicians told a legislature committee on Monday.

HALIFAX — Members of the Nova Scotia public voiced concerns on Monday about a government bill they said threatens people’s access to information and violates labour rights in the civil service.