Nova Scotia News

The search for two people in a canoe in rough waters off Nova Scotia was called off Saturday night after officials determined there was likely no emergency.

Tens of thousands of fans packed a large Halifax park Saturday afternoon, counting down the hours until Paul McCartney's only Canadian performance this year.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says his government's plan to reduce gasoline taxes in communities along the New Brunswick border will not be expanded to the province's other entry points.

A doctor with ties to Nova Scotia has been indicted on a murder charge in Kentucky in the death of his Cape Breton-born wife May 29.

Tim Hortons is proving to be a hit among New Yorkers. Canada's iconic coffee shop has emerged as the victor in an international doughnut war in New York.

Jerrell Johnston hugged his family before he was led away to prison for trying to kill a man at an East Preston, N.S., after-hours bar.

The director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology says the new Halifax-based research facility, which officially opened Friday, will play a leading role in Canada's efforts to stop the spread of swine flu.

"You know the slow food movement?" asked a friend recently -- referring to the international effort to counteract fast-food trends.

A Dartmouth man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the April 2008 stabbing death of Gregory Fost.

A number of products containing dried milk ingredients are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella bacteria -- including hot chocolate sold in Cavendish.

A Halifax-area man was sentenced Thursday to nine and one-half years in prison for shooting a man outside an after-hours club in East Preston in 2006.

Investor losses in Westpoint could be recovered through the professional indemnity insurance of a financial planner that encouraged clients to invest in the group, a court has found.

A second person has died following a head-on collision between two motorcycles last week in Nova Scotia's Lunenburg County.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - The Canadians have come up with a word to describe the newly jobless.

The prosecution went through an exhibit of 52 photographs with a Canadian Forces reservist in a military courtroom Wednesday in an attempt to demonstrate to the four-member military panel the working conditions and daily life faced by the soldiers at Kandahar Airfield.

Pictou County Dr. Gerry Farrell was a recipient June 23 of one of Cancer Care Nova Scotia's inaugural Excellence Awards in leadership, innovation, patient care and pioneer excellence.

Ice arenas are as Canadian as Moosehead beer. Getting federal stimulus money out the door on a shovel-ready arena project shouldn't be a problem then when the local government involved has done all the planning, has committed local funds, has secured provincial funding and was approved for federal cash.

Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly and Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter re-create the iconic Abbey Road album cover.

The first two of 45 vessels scheduled to visit Boston for a five-day Tall Ships event have arrived.

A Halifax-area woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of mischief for spray-painting her sister-in-law as she was on her way to her wedding last July.