Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is defending a $1.35-million housing program that resulted in 60 leases over roughly two years.

When Rachael Coe decided to launch an “elbows up” merchandise line at her store in Yarmouth, N.S., in March, she said it was an immediate bestseller. Within a week, Coe said her Timeless Memories shop had already made 400 sales.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it will spend $1.73 million to help 22 seafood companies and related organizations reduce their carbon footprints.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s plan to increase the provincial role of the RCMP is being questioned by some mayors who say they are wary of the implications for their municipal police forces.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia government ministers say they will meet with a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, although they remain tight-lipped on the panel's findings, which were submitted a year ago.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's minister of public works says it will be "several years" until construction begins to protect a low-lying strip of land that links the province to New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's governing Progressive Conservatives outpaced their rivals in fundraising last year, though the NDP had more individual donors.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax are looking for a woman accused of assaulting a man days before he died at an encampment for homeless people.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says only 60 tenants signed leases with landlords through a program that cost taxpayers $1.35 million over two years.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it is considering a larger role for the RCMP as the province restructures and modernizes policing services.