Nova Scotia

Alton Gas says protesters were expected to remove their belongings from its Nova Scotia property on Thursday, March 21, 2019, evening as a temporary injunction imposed on Monday, March 18, 2019, is finalized over the next few days.

Nova Scotia's premier says the RCMP has found no evidence that former prime minister Jean Chrétien carried out illegal lobbying during a visit to his Halifax office last year.

The federal government is stepping in to regulate a company's controversial plan to use water from one of Nova Scotia's major rivers to create huge underground caverns to store natural gas, but a Mi'kmaq leader says Ottawa's move doesn't go far enough.

The wary skepticism that Canada's big banks have for the cryptocurrency industry was on full display on Friday, February 22, 2019, when a Nova Scotia judge issued an order for the eventual disbursement of more than $30 million that belonged to the insolvent QuadrigaCX trading platform.

There is a growing outpouring of support as Canadians look for ways to express their grief and help after the Halifax house fire that killed seven children and left their father in critical condition.

A one-time Syrian refugee who founded a thriving Nova Scotia chocolate company has announced plans to hire and mentor other refugees.

A clearer picture is emerging of the young man at the centre of the mysterious demise of one of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

A U.S.-based animal protection group is touring coastal Nova Scotia communities in hopes of finding one interested in becoming a retirement home for whales and dolphins raised in captivity.

The head of the RCMP in Manitoba says providing an eagle feather to people swearing oaths is a positive step toward reconciliation with Indigenous communities.

A powerful winter storm that brought heavy rain and snow to much of Eastern and Central Canada has closed schools, flooded streets, knocked out power and is forcing school buses to stay off the roads in Toronto today as temperatures plummet.

BP Canada is scaling back its oil and gas exploration plans off Nova Scotia, giving up half the offshore area included in its exploration licence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added two new faces to his cabinet on Monday, January 14, 2019, morning, tapping Montreal MP David Lametti as Canada's new justice minister and Nova Scotia's Bernadette Jordan as minister of rural economic development — a new position on the front bench.

Police say a member of the RCMP fired their gun at a suspect who they allege "took actions threatening first responders" during an incident in Dieppe, N.B., on Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of cash-handling machines across the country have had to be upgraded to handle Canada's distinctive new $10 bill, featuring a vertical portrait of Nova Scotia civil rights advocate Viola Desmond, while some others still awaiting changes are rejecting the distinctive banknotes.

A community on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia is looking forward to a brighter 2019 after a difficult year that's been bookended by tragedy.