Nova Scotia News

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A massive hydrogen and ammonia plant has been approved in Cape Breton, giving Nova Scotia a leg up in an Atlantic Canadian race to develop green energy for eager German buyers.

HALIFAX — Grape growers say it will take years for Nova Scotia vineyards to recover from the recent cold snap that destroyed more than 95 per cent of some of the most prized varieties of grapes.

HALIFAX — Residents of a rural Cape Breton community that has lost power during cold and windy weather are looking for compensation from the utility — and a grid designed for the changing climate.

HALIFAX — Federal lawyers say it was lawful and reasonable to charge the spouse of the man responsible for the Nova Scotia mass shooting for supplying him with ammunition.

HALIFAX — When Diane Breen died unexpectedly following her visit to a Nova Scotia emergency room, her family was left grieving — both over her loss and their sense that lessons weren't learned from the tragedy.

HALIFAX — A former Halifax university student on trial for killing another student during a drug deal completed his testimony Thursday, insisting he had no plan to kill anyone and that he shot the other man in self-defence.

HALIFAX — There was drama in a Halifax courtroom Wednesday as a Crown prosecutor tried to poke holes in the alibi of a former medical student who is claiming self-defence in the shooting death of another student during a drug deal.

HALIFAX — Doctors and nurses in Nova Scotia say new federal money for health care must be spent on primary care and increasing staffing levels. Dr.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is expanding to include oversight of police forces in New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — A former medical student who claims he fatally shot a fellow student in self-defence during a drug deal in Halifax denied Tuesday he planned to kill the man and steal the nine kilograms of marijuana he was carrying.