Nova Scotia

The start date for the construction of Canada's only commercial spaceport has been pushed back, a developer said following meetings at the proposed rocket launch site near a small fishing community on Nova Scotia's eastern shore.

After more than a decade of studying police oversight agencies, Kent Roach sees Felix Cacchione's appointment as the director of Nova Scotia's law enforcement watchdog as a potential game changer.

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada's plans to drill a deep-water exploration well roughly 330 kilometres off the coast of Halifax.

Nova Scotia's offshore petroleum regulator has granted BP Canada Energy Group approval to begin drilling a well off the province's coast.

No province has yet shown interest in signing on to the federal government's carbon pricing system instead of creating their own, potentially setting up a log jam for Ottawa to meet its deadline for every province to have a $20 a tonne price on pollution by Jan. 1.

A former soldier who killed his girlfriend and then himself at their Nova Scotia home had been on multiple tours in Afghanistan and came back psychologically "broken" and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, his family and friends said on Friday, March 23, 2018.

Nova Scotia has become the first province to ban medically unnecessary cat declawing.

A small steeple that's a part of Halifax's urban landscape toppled early on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in a fierce winter storm that left thousands of Maritimers facing power outages, school closures and flight cancellations.

As the race to produce enough cannabis for the soon-to-be-legal market gets increasingly crowded, licensed producers are setting their sights on the next frontier in the race for maximum pot profitability: developing retail stores.

He says the movement of Alberta oil to the west coast "makes sense to me" because it’s about broadening the country’s access to more international markets.

A prominent Nova Scotia mayor who came out as gay this week after someone allegedly threatened to out him has declared his intention to lead the provincial Tories.

More than 80 complaints have now been received against two former RCMP doctors under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct spanning decades, police in Ontario and Nova Scotia say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears poised to break a key election promise regarding the environment, a coalition of about 20 environmental and fisheries groups said Wednesday.

Indigenous children in Nova Scotia are set to learn coding and other digital skills, in an initiative one business leader says he hopes will "open up doors" beyond the reserve for Mi'kmaq students.

Tesla Inc. is building fast-charging stations for its electric vehicles in Atlantic Canada, opening up the East Coast to road trippers with the California automaker's high-end plug-in cars.