Nova Scotia News

SHEET HARBOUR, N.S. — A 36-year-old woman and a three-year-old boy who had been missing since the weekend were found dead on a shoreline in the Sheet Harbour area on Tuesday. Searchers located the body of a woman from Ruth Falls, N.S.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's auditor general is asking the Mounties to investigate the provincial Liberal party over its "apparent concealment" of the misuse of public funds by a former employee.

HALIFAX — More than 230 unionized workers in the Halifax area walked off the job Tuesday at the Autoport, one of North America’s largest transshipment facilities for imported vehicles.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's police oversight agency is investigating the death Monday of a motorist who fled from Halifax police and crashed his vehicle in the Hammonds Plains area.

HALIFAX — New legislation introduced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday changes how the electrical grid is structured and regulated.

HALIFAX — A Mi'kmaq chief in Nova Scotia has filed a lawsuit against two Halifax radiologists alleging they conducted medical tests on her and other members of the Pictou Landing First Nation without their consent.

HALIFAX — As Halifax’s deadline for people to leave five homeless encampments passed Monday, a couple expecting a child said they intend to remain at one of the sites because they have no other options.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's new plan to protect the province's 13,000 kilometres of coastline is an abdication of the government's responsibility, the opposition and environmental activists said Monday.

HALIFAX — Striking faculty, librarians and lab instructors at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax are returning to the bargaining table today.

MULGRAVE, N.S. — A crew member has died after an incident on a Clearwater Seafoods vessel in eastern Nova Scotia, the province's Department of Labour confirmed Saturday.