The Financial Measures Act introduced Wednesday is aimed at reducing red tape and modernizing legislation, says Finance Minister John Lohr.

The job is the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken in the Atlantic Canada region, according to a Canadian government official.

Collingwood and District Fire Chief Jerrold Cotton was driving the rig that struck the snowmobiler as he was being assisted by civilians.

Premier Tim Houston and members of his cabinet are again taking questions from reporters at the Nova Scotia Legislature.

An investigation has concluded there was a fire aboard a sailboat that disappeared south of Nova Scotia’s Sable Island last summer, leading to the deaths

The B.C. company has signed a one-year untendered contract to bring in diagnostic imaging techs under a model similar to the use of travel nurses to address nursing shortages.

The Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions has reached a tentative agreement with the seven Regional Centres for Education and Conseil scolaire acadien provincial. Details of the tentative agreement will not be shared until members have had the opportunity to review and ratify the terms,

The Artists’ Gallery will feature “Mini Masterpieces” by its five partners during First Friday on March 7. The collective show encompasses small compositions ranging from scenes of Nova Scotia and Italy to an image of a Key Lime Hound.

The idea behind the program is to have a team of Nova Scotia Health travel nurses that can be sent to emergency departments around the province where needed.

Perched on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the ski area provides views of the seemingly endless, briny waves from Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Another quirk: Despite its humble footprint, which consists of 15 runs,

Those who work in the seafood processing and shipping industry in Nova Scotia say Clearwater Seafoods' decision to exit the live lobster business is a sign from a giant that those remaining in the industry need to figure out how to stabilize the economics of it.