Mortgage debt in Canada has ballooned to more than $2 trillion. According to a new study, the banks are largely to blame

Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for a wintry wet storm mix heading to Halifax Regional Municipality. A mix of snow, but mostly rain, will dampen the city on Tuesday afternoon and...

Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting environmental pressures.

The union representing some long term care workers is beginning the process of filing for conciliation as it says talks broke down on Monday with the provincial government. In a news release, CUPE say...

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston told reporters Thursday the proposal 'won't get to the next step.'

A rally for the Dartmouth Cove – which has long been the subject of debate around possible infilling – was held in downtown Halifax on Wednesday.

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the fourth and final instalment in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. H...

The water utility is returning customers serviced by Lake Major to voluntary water restrictions after recent heavy rainfall.

Protesters gathered outside Province House on Wednesday said they are concerned Halifax’s proposed bylaw protecting Dartmouth Cove from infilling will be rejected by the provincial government. Advocates and community members want the cove to be protected and for the province to listen to residents. “This has been a pretty political process in that it’s a grassroots, transparent community organization fighting for what they believe in,” Jill Brogan with Friends of Dartmouth Cove said.

A report shows the Defence Department’s already poor transparency record is getting worse.

In October and November, Atlantic salmon return from their ocean feeding grounds to the rivers where they were born, looking for an ideal place to spawn. But in Nova Scotia, the ongoing drought is thr...