Halifax News

We hear a lot about the hazards of drunk driving, but here's something else to put on your radar: A study in the British Medical Journal found that marijuana nearly doubles the risk of vehicle collisions.

Keith Haynes and his daughter Jessie pose for a photo on Thursday February 9, 2012 at their home in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

The new census shows that two-thirds of Nova Scotia's rural counties are in decline while Halifax and some regional centres are growing.

On Valentine's Day, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale , led by founder and artistic director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, is teaming up with author Lawrence Hill and jazz veteran pianist and composer Joe Sealy at Toronto's acoustically pristine Koerner Hall .

Halifax Regional Municipality's parking ticket revenues jumped nearly 30 per cent in the first week of the strike compared with the week before it began.

More than a dozen tall ships are scheduled to sail into Savannah for a three-day festival this spring.

The Nova Scotia government is slated to inject cash Tuesday into a high-tech Annapolis Valley company that provides business owners with cutting-edge, point-of-sale analytics.

The property where the Taj Mahal restaurant stands in Halifax is likely to change hands and possibly become part of a new South Street redevelopment.

Alexandre Arsenault walks the runway with a Specs model wearing his design at Montreal Fashion Week on Thursday, Feb.

Some of the smallest ocean micro-organisms from the deepest and darkest depths of the Atlantic Ocean will soon be appearing on scientists' video screens through a collaboration between Resolution Optics of Halifax and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

We hear a lot about the hazards of drunk driving, but here's something else to put on your radar: A study in the British Medical Journal found that marijuana nearly doubles the risk of vehicle collisions.

We hear a lot about the hazards of drunk driving, but here's something else to put on your radar: A study in the British Medical Journal found that marijuana nearly doubles the risk of vehicle collisions.

As workers at the Electro-Motive Diesel plant await a decision over severance packages, many are already thinking about leaving the city with hopes of starting fresh elsewhere.

Africville was a small predominently Black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sen. Fred Dickson is being remembered as a powerful political operative, a prominent lawyer and a man who permanently reshaped Canada's offshore energy landscape, winning over $1 billion for his home province of Nova Scotia in the process.

April Wine formed in late 1969 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but vocalist/guitarist Myles Goodwyn, guitarist David Henman, drummer Ritchie Henman, and bassist Jimmy Henman soon moved to Montreal.

Overall, the province's population grew by less than one per cent from 2006 to last year - the least of any province.

The Retail Council of Canada says to protect the affordability of food for citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador the federal government must prevent Marine Atlantic from imposing unreasonable shipping rate increases.

Bunge Canada Holdings of Halifax, N.S., has pleaded guilty to one count under the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failing to ensure that a worker did not work within 4.6 metres of an exposed energized conductor.

Cape Breton's population continued its decline in the latest census data released by Statistics Canada, Wednesday.