A 77-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after a single-vehicle crash in Clarke's Beach on Wednesday evening. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. on April 24, RCMP received word that a van had left the roadway before crashing into a fence. Police ...

The Municipality of Barrington has approved a $10,686,954 operating budget, and a $12,251,153 capital budget for 2024-25, and is maintaining the property tax rate across the board for a third year. The residential tax rate has been set at $1.07 per ...

Nova Scotia is set to welcome 30 new paramedics from Australia as part of the province's first in-person healthcare recruitment efforts. The experienced advanced-care paramedics recruited to Emergency Medical Care Inc. and serving communities across ...

An underground infrastructure project will soon be getting underway at the intersection of Main, Chestnut and Vancouver streets in Yarmouth. The project involves excavation of the intersection to replace critical infrastructure that has reached the ...

A 36-year-old Boylston, Guysborough County man has been charged with child pornography offences after an investigation by the RCMP’s provincial internet child exploitation unit. Police say they were directed to a home on Antigonish Guysborough Road ...

Councillors in Nova Scotia’s smallest town are looking for direction from taxpayers on how to proceed with expensive projects on the horizon. Annapolis Royal is hosting a public meeting for residents on May 13 at the Royal Canadian Legion to discuss ...

Annapolis Royal councillors were able to pass the budget without raising the tax rate for the 2024-25 fiscal year but some big decisions loom. Council passed its $2.8-million operating budget April 17. It sees the tax rates remain at $1.70 ...

Twenty tiny shelters are on the way to Kentville. In a couple of weeks, they’ll be up and ready for people to move in, according to Suzanne Ley, executive director of employment supports and income assistance at the Department of Community Services.

Even as DFO has begun arresting illegal elver harvesters, the baby eels are still leaving Canadian airports under the federal government’s nose enroute to markets in Asia. Late Saturday night, Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers arrested five more ...

An East Hants man has pleaded guilty to three sex-related charges involving children. Colin Wesley Pynn, 45, of Five Mile River went on trial April 8 in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference, possessing child ...