Author Archives: Kevin Northup

UPDATE: 7 p.m.: Bell Aliant says a software update gone wrong prevented many Maritimers from being able to call 911 on Tuesday morning. The company said the hours-long outage impacted landline custome...

Support for the Africville Museum. The province announced 150-thousand dollars for the Heritage Trust to freshen up programming and come up with a strategic plan for the future. African Nova Scotian A...

Twelve new COVID-19 deaths in Nova Scotia. They all came from previous reporting periods. The province says there were no new deaths last week. The number of those in hospital with COVID is down sligh...

A report of shots fired in North Preston last night. Halifax District RCMP say they were called to a home on Amos Walter Drive around 8:30. Police say a number of gun shots were heard, and there were ...

High winds and heavy rain pounding our province today. As of 3 p.m, over 40-thousand are without power, as wind gusts get up to 100 kilometres an hour. Some of the largest outages are in Halifax, Hant...

A 19-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Shelburne County. It happened around 1:30 this morning on Highway 203 in Lower Ohio. RCMP say a pickup truck overturned and came to rest on it...

Halifax is featured in this year's Oscar nominations. 'The Flying Sailor,' an animated short set in 1917, during the Halifax Explosion is nominated for best animated short. It tells the story of a man...

The price of diesel is going to change at midnight. The province is using its interrupter clause to make the adjustment. No official word yet on which way it's going to go, but we're hearing it could ...

The price of gas went up again. It increased by almost two cents a litre, after a seven cent jump earlier this week with the interrupter clause. In most places, you'll pay over $1.55 a litre. Diesel w...

Get your snow brush and shovel ready. All of Nova Scotia is under a snowfall warning today. Environment Canada says an average of 15-20 centimetres will fall across the province. The snow has begun in...