Nova Scotia News

Metro Transit workers rallied in Grand Parade Sunday, urging the Halifax Regional Municipality to get back to the bargaining table.

Thousands of Maritimers lost their power Sunday after high winds, snow, and freezing rain caused widespread outages across the region overnight Saturday.

Gerald Clark of New Glasgow talks about his experience battling prostate cancer Saturday at the Ward One Recreation Centre.

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

High winds and freezing rain knocked down about 150 Hydro-QuA©bec power poles, leaving 3,600 homes and businesses without power, said Helene Fauteux, a reporter with the community radio station, CFIM.

Freezing rain was the apparent cause of power cuts in Prince Edward Island. High winds or icing likely triggered reported outages in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

The Cabot Trail between Pleasant Bay and Big Intervale was closed Sunday morning due to black ice on the roadway.

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 .

Whether they are called cutbacks, reductions or rationalizations, no one in any rural Nova Scotia community is pleased if the references are to health services.

Olivier Broussard shows his championship smile at the conclusion of Saturday's Cape Breton Post Postmedia Canspell Spelling Bee.

The Nova Scotia Government Employees Union says it's been left out of merger talks between Dalhousie and the Nova Scotia Agriculture College.

The surface mine at Point Aconi is one of two that Pioneer Coal operates in Nova Scotia.

Students from Macdonald Elementary in Dominion and Mount Carmel Elementary and St.

The newly-appointed chair of an independent commission that will review the province's electoral boundaries is urging all Nova Scotians to stand up and say what's on their minds.

RCMP are searching a residence in Centre Rawdon, N.S., in connection with the case of a Dartmouth woman who has been missing since November.

Scheduling is a large stumbling block in the contract dispute at Metro Transit. Workers want to keep the system they have now, but the city wants to switch to something it says will save a lot of money.

The RCMP is asking the public for help to identify this man, who was found deceased near Antigonish on Dec.

Tastefully creative and unique jazz all the way from Toronto is on the bill for Music on Sunday at The Old School House February 12.

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.