Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government tabled a single bill on Tuesday that would amend 15 provincial acts and create a new office to protect the rights of young people, a move the opposition said was an attempt to avoid legislative scrutiny.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's auditor general says the province's spending outside the regular budget process lacks oversight and is costing the government millions of dollars in interest.

HALIFAX — Residents of a central Halifax homeless encampment were forced to relocate Monday as workers cleared out the site — one week after a municipal deadline passed for it and four other sites to be vacated.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government announced Monday a $258-million plan for a new high-speed ferry service that will link Halifax with Bedford, a rapidly growing suburb about 10 kilometres northwest of the port city's downtown.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's information commissioner says the province's rejection of her appeal for more staff will leave citizen requests to access government documents languishing in a years-long wait-list.

Halifax officials delivered on a promise Friday to cut electricity to the dozen or so people living in a homeless encampment set up last fall outside city hall. As of 9 a.m.

HALIFAX — The last of 26 charges laid after a 2021 Halifax housing protest has ended with an acquittal, capping a two-and-a-half-year legal saga during which just a handful of prosecutions proceeded.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia legislature has paid tribute to the late Brian Mulroney, lauding the former prime minister’s ties to the province.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Crown prosecutors were handed new tools Thursday to root out systemic anti-Black racism long embedded within the province's justice system.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has tabled a $16.5-billion budget that indexes provincial income tax rates to inflation — a move the government said Thursday will provide relief from the province's rising cost of living.