Nova Scotia News

It's been seven long years since the official start of Canada's mission in Afghanistan, a period marked by equal parts confusion, stoicism and pride.

Roman Catholics in northern Nova Scotia watched with shock and sadness on Thursday the television images of their once respected bishop surrendering to police in Ottawa.

Paulette and Robin Tedford stand with Tom and Angela Reid as they visit the cenotaph in Truro, NS, Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

The Nova Scotia Teachers Union is using flawed logic by suggesting the provincial government should order pregnant teachers to stay away from the classroom to prevent them from getting swine flu, the province's chief public health officer said Friday.

We just returned home to the USA from being at our Nova Scotian home for awhile-a welcomed respite.

A highway twinning in Cape Breton and two bridge improvement projects are in line for $49.5 million in federal-provincial infrastructure funding.

At 15, Krista Lindsay decided she'd had enough of Grade 10. Disinterested in school and trapped in a cycle of skipping classes, getting suspended and apologizing to the principal, her Halifax high school finally decided it was done, too.

Federal cabinet ministers blitzed the country with economic stimulus announcements Friday in the face of dismal employment numbers that leave the Harper government far short of its job-creation targets.

Local residents who served during the Second World War include, clockwise from left, Charlie Bell, Charles Darrow and Richard Olsen.

The RCMP are urging drivers to slow down as the first snowfall of the season hits Nova Scotia.

The band manager of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia has received a conditional sentence after changing his plea to guilty on various drug and weapons charges.

Jon Driver was pleased Thursday when he heard Simon Fraser University had ranked first in the comprehensive category of the annual Maclean's magazine university rankings, but he still took the news with a grain of salt.

Three more fires have been reported in a community in Cape Breton, bringing the total to five in less than 24 hours.

Karen Kormanaski at the inquiry into her common-law husband's death in July. A missing person report has been filed for the common-law wife of Howard Hyde, a schizophrenic man whose death in police custody is the subject of a public inquiry.

Hospital workers in districts outside Halifax say they won't go on strike before early next year due to Nova Scotia's efforts to combat the swine flu.

That was the verdict a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury returned Tuesday in the second-degree murder trial of Herbert Hawkins.

A soldier of the German military police overlooks training of Afghan police officers in northern Afghanistan.

Earl Shadbolt was reunited yesterday with his beloved pooch, Willie, ending a dispute with a neighbour in a custody battle that raised the ire of animal lovers.

Vaunted reforms to fast track skilled immigrants and quickly plug gaps in Canada's labour force have not lived up to advance billing, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser.

A Cape Breton pulp mill has been given permission by the province to sell harvested Crown-land timber to a proposed electrical generation facility that would burn waste wood.