Nova Scotia News

About 70 family, friends and those living with multiple sclerosis, participated in the Medavie Blue Cross MS Walk in downtown Sydney.

Hundreds took part in the Respect for Women March held in honour of Amber Kirwan on Sunday.

Andrew Totten, left, an eight-year-old from Debert with an interest in history, talks with 10-year-old Noah Mills during the opening of the Debert Military Museum on Saturday.

Judy Dauphinee stands on the rocks near the lighthouse in Peggy's Cove, N.S. on Friday, May 25, 2012.

In a letter from Brian Dunn, Bishop of Antigonish, parishioners were told the diocese was consolidating several city parishes into one.

At 11:54 p.m. on May 26, Halifax Regional Police received a report of a man having been shot, he was lying in the area of Charles and Gottingen streets in Halifax.

Not long ago, Membertou was a typical First Nation community struggling with high unemployment, debt and social problems.

Nova Scotians have long been an inventive bunch. Not all of the creations have been memorable and not all have stuck around, but those that top the list and continue to have an impact on our daily lives are worthy of note.

A David and Goliath contest in Nova Scotia, pitching an ingenue inventor against the towering figure of Canada's industrial science complex, may highlight the folly of leaving innovation to chance.

Gospel blues legends the Blind Boys of Alabama will be appearing as the special guest of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Halifax Metro Centre on Thursday, after scheduling conflicts required Jimmy Cliff to drop out of the band's Atlantic Canadian dates.

Georgina Palmeter Phinney, right, is pictured with her daughter, Joan Zinck. Phinney was named queen of the Apple Blossom Fesitval in 1946.

Police continue to investigate the gruesome discovery Friday of a body stuffed inside a hockey bag that was floating in the Mira River in Cape Breton, N.S. The body was reportedly discovered at about 8 p.m. Friday by a woman who lives near the river by Marion Bridge -- a quiet cottage spot south of Sydney, N.S. Staff Sgt.

Halifax police say the man killed on Clifton Street Friday night was in his 30s and that the homicide was linked to drugs.

Shirl MacInnes said she was woken up just before 3 a.m. by smoke and a neighbor pounding on the door of her Lanzy Road home.

Military crews were able to float the infamous Cape Ann III on Thursday evening, leaving the boat sitting high in the water as work continued on Friday morning.

There are elements of Niagara-on-the-Lake to this town at the far eastern end of the Annapolis Valley.

Cole Harbour RCMP said the fatal accident involved only the dead man's car. It happened at about 6:45 p.m., on Ridding Road near Shore Road.

ALC, which manages gambling in the four Atlantic provinces, says the machines are obsolete and parts aren't available anymore.

Kenneth Gerald Knight, 43, poses a "high risk to reoffend in a sexual manner," said Const.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the funding for J.J. MacKay Ltd. of New Glasgow is to support the development of two new parking meter systems.