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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:10 PM
Canada basks in record high temperatures
Many Canadians enjoyed the warmest St. Patrick's Day ever Wednesday, with many places in the country logging record high temperatures with spring still officially a week away.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 8:44 PM
Pay travel costs for medical care: poll
Nova Scotians believe the provincial government should cover travel costs for people who need to leave the province to receive medical care, a poll commissioned by the CBC suggests.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 8:15 PM
Firefighter delay may have fanned wildfire
The wildfire that destroyed eight homes and sparked a mass evacuation in the Halifax area last spring may have been prevented if fire crews hadn't been delayed in returning to the scene, according to internal Halifax Regional Fire Service documents.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 5:38 PM
2nd navy ship returns from Haiti
HMCS Athabaskan is back home in Halifax after eight weeks in Haiti
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 4:59 PM
Hospital blamed in man's disappearance
The family of a missing Sydney man who disappeared from the mental health unit of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital two weeks ago are questioning how he was able to walk away.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 4:32 PM
N.S. woman twice declared dead
A woman who lives in Garden of Eden, N.S., got a shock when she learned she had been declared dead not once, but twice, in the past five months by the federal government.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:56 AM
Woman arrested after Dartmouth shooting
Halifax Regional Police have a 25-year-old woman in custody after a shooting in Dartmouth Tuesday night, but are still looking for two gunmen.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:56 AM
Firefighters rescue helper dog
Rudy the dog normally helps others. But firefighters had to rescue him when a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 10:02 PM
Shots fired in north-end Dartmouth
Halifax regional police responded to reports of several shots being fired just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in a north-end Dartmouth neighbourhood.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 9:41 PM
Rail crossings make safety watch list
The Transportation Safety Board has identified high-risk rail crossings as one of nine areas it says pose the greatest safety threats to Canadians.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 8:02 PM
Wagmatcook welcomes fatal shooting probe
The Wagmatcook Band Council is welcoming an independent investigation of the shooting death of John Simon by an RCMP officer in 2008.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 7:25 PM
NDP pays elections fine
The Nova Scotia New Democratic Party has paid a $10,000 fine for accepting an illegal campaign donation from a trade union.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 5:27 PM
Internet access funds not cut: Clement
The Conservative government is denying reports it was cutting funding to community institutions that provide free internet access to Canadians who don't have affordable access at home or at work.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 1:37 PM
Ottawa cuts funding for internet sites
The people who run Nova Scotia's 209 community internet access sites are bracing for funding cuts.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 11:56 AM
Accused highway rock-throwers charged
RCMP have charged five teenagers after a series of rock-throwing incidents at stores and moving vehicles in Stewiacke.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 8:21 AM
Girls first at new HRM rink
Girls and disabled athletes will be priority groups when a new four-pad arena opens later this year on Hammonds Plains Road.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 10:39 PM
Lawrencetown among 12 Hockeyville finalists
Lawrencetown in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley is among the 12 communities that made it into the next round of the annual Kraft Hockeyville competition to host an NHL pre-season game.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 9:53 PM
Senior drivers need more options: MDs
A senior's licence to drive shouldn't trump public safety, say doctors advocating better transportation programs for an aging population.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 7:13 PM
3 charged in cemetery vandalism
Two adults and one youth have been charged with mischief after two crosses were ripped off headstones in a historic graveyard in south-end Halifax over the weekend.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 4:58 PM
Norovirus hits Halifax hospital, nursing home
A general surgery unit at the Infirmary site of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax is closed to visitors because of an outbreak of the norovirus.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 2:51 PM
Teen charged in Armdale boat thefts
An 18-year-old Dartmouth man is facing five charges of breaking and entering in connection with a string of thefts from boats at the Armdale Yacht Club last December.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 11:40 AM
Driver punched in road-rage row
Police in Halifax are looking for an angry passenger who smashed a car window and punched the driver sitting inside.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 10:07 AM
Westmount fire deemed suspicious
Cape Breton Regional Police are returning to the scene of a suspicious fire in Westmount.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 8:15 AM
Driver seriously hurt in South Bar crash
A 32-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital in Halifax Sunday after her car overturned, trapping her inside.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 7:06 AM
N.S. backs tire recycling contract
The company planning to shred 900,000 old tires in Halifax has cleared another bump on the road.
Last Updated: March 14 2010, 1:00 PM
N.S. First Nation election problem found
An independent investigator has found a major problem in how votes were counted in the Shubenacadie First Nation election in Nova Scotia last summer.
Last Updated: March 14 2010, 11:17 AM
Police end Sydney Mines, N.S., standoff
Cape Breton Regional Police took a man into custody Sunday morning after an armed standoff at a home in Sydney Mines, N.S.
Last Updated: March 13 2010, 5:42 PM
Howard's juggernaut tough to crack
Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs came close in the 1-versus-2 playoff and so did Alberta's Kevin Koe in the final round-robin game, but so far nobody has been able to solve the mystery of how to beat Glenn Howard at the 2010 Brier in Halifax.
Last Updated: March 13 2010, 5:26 PM
Dartmouth apartment fire investigated
Fire investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that broke out in an apartment building in Dartmouth, N.S., Saturday morning.
Last Updated: March 13 2010, 4:33 PM
Anti-sealing protest held in Halifax
About a dozen protesters in Halifax demonstrated Saturday afternoon against the seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Last Updated: March 13 2010, 4:17 PM
Halifax cabaret faces disciplinary hearing
Nova Scotia liquor control officers are trying to force the Toothy Moose Cabaret in downtown Halifax to close earlier after a series of infractions.
Last Updated: March 13 2010, 3:25 PM
Horne family appalled at accused's leave request
A Nova Scotia family is appalled that a woman charged with murder in the death of 20-year-old Jennifer Horne on New Year's Eve 2007 is applying to be let out of jail.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 9:45 PM
RCMP drops Wagmatcook shooting probe
The RCMP will not take disciplinary action against an officer who fatally shot a Wagmatcook, N.S., man because the force took too long to start its investigation.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 8:20 PM
Strait Area Transit eyes expansion
Strait Area Transit plans to expand its service in Inverness County, N.S., with $130,000 in funding from the provincial government.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 7:57 PM
Cross-burning case delayed until April
Two brothers accused of burning a cross in the yard of an interracial couple in Nova Scotia are scheduled to enter pleas on April 19.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 5:55 PM
McNeil in dark about MLA's resignation
Nova Scotia Liberal leader says he doesn't know why one of his caucus members suddenly resigned.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 1:49 PM
Mild winter brings early golfing
A Nova Scotia golf course got a jump on the competition and opened for the season Friday, giving Maritimers an early start on the links.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 1:19 PM
Atlantic Canada on display at Paralympics
The tastes and sounds of Atlantic Canada will be on display in British Columbia again next week when Atlantic Canada House opens as part of the Paralympic Winter Games.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 11:16 AM
Visa warns seniors of fraud
A credit-card company warned Nova Scotian seniors to be vigilant against scammers at a public meeting Thursday.
Last Updated: March 12 2010, 10:18 AM
Bat, knife used in bus-stop fight
Two men were in hospital and one was under arrest after a violent altercation at a Dartmouth bus terminal Friday morning.