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Pallet shelters are being set up outside Beacon House in Lower Sackville on Tuesday, February 6, 2024.

Pallet shelter plan: A year late and 90 per cent short

Andrew Rankin · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 17 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

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.

Bruce MacKinnon cartoon Feb. 16, 2024

Poached elvers still getting exported despite DFO busts and closed season

Aaron Beswick · Reporter |Updated 4 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Carlos Ayapal Gonzalez Moraga, 38, of Enfield was sentenced Thursday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference and making child pornography. Justice Jeffrey Hunt accepted a joint recommendation from lawyers for a 27-month prison term.

East Hants man pleads guilty to sexual interference, child porn charges

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 7 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

Discarded plastic containers litter sone brush in north-end Dartmouth Wednesday April 24,2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Dalhousie-led study reveals biggest branded waste producers

Kaitlyn MacNeill |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

A Dalhousie-led study has unveiled a link between plastic production and pollution.   The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, was conducted by scientists from Dalhousie and 12 other post-secondary institutions in the U.S., Australia, the ...

A lobster fishing boat steams out of Pubnico Harbour past the Pubnico Point wind farm. Kathy Johnson photo

Still no estimates on what greening N.S. grid will cost ratepayers and taxpayers

Aaron Beswick · Reporter |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

Getting off coal and hitting Nova Scotia’s target of generating 80 per cent of renewables by 2030 will be expensive for anyone who buys electricity or pays taxes here. But nobody knows how expensive. Neither Nova Scotia Power president Peter Gregg, ...

The Bass River Lighthouse surrounded by fog. The wooden, pepper-shaker-style tower was built in 1907. It is no longer operational and is privately owned.

Two recent deaths near Portapique still not explained: ‘I know I keep my door locked’

Chris Lambie · Lead editor – enterprise |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

The RCMP’s investigation into the discovery of two dead bodies in Bass River a week ago on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Nova Scotia’s mass shooting and just down the road from where the Portapique massacre began is drawing criticism for ...

Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard announced on behalf of John Lohr, the minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, about $3 million in provincial funding April 23 for West Hants to construct a new municipal water storage tank.

Province invests in West Hants, N.S., water upgrades amid ‘unprecedented growth’

Carole Morris-Underhill · Lead editor Valley Journal-Advertiser |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Provincial funding announced Tuesday will help West Hants not only keep up with its population growth but plan for the future. Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard was in Windsor April 23 to announce the province was providing about $3 million for a ...

JinHo Kim, a former constable with the Truro Police Service, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dartmouth provincial court to two counts of voyeurism. His sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 4.

Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

A former Truro police officer has pleaded guilty in Dartmouth provincial court to two charges of voyeurism. JinHo Kim, 30, entered the guilty pleas Tuesday, when he appeared in court via a video link from Ontario. The charges involve two women who ...

Langley RCMP is investigating after a vehicle crashed into a community policing office in Aldergrove Sunday night.

Southampton, N.S., man killed in Mapleton single-vehicle accident

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

A 71-year-old Southampton, N.S., man is dead following a single-vehicle accident in Mapleton on Monday, April 22. Mounties were called to an area off Highway 2 just before 1:50 p.m. and discovered a beige Toyota Tacoma had been travelling along the ...

Surrey RCMP are investigating a hit-and-run collision at the intersection of 122A Street and 82nd Avenue Monday night.

P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

A P.E.I. woman is dead and a Nova Scotia woman is hospitalized with serious injuries following a two-vehicle head-on collision in Upper Nappan, Cumberland County, on Monday. Just before 12:30 p.m., emergency services responded to the crash on Highway ...

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