Author Archives: Kevin Northup
Chimney fire at Brothers Meats in Halifax
A chimney fire at Brothers Meats on Agricola Street. Halifax Fire says it happened this morning, and there is minimal structural damage. They say it started in the fryer and went into the chimney. A s...
Jul 04, 2024
Trial to be held this fall for man accused of starting Barrington Lake wildfire
A trial will be held later this year for a man accused of starting the largest wildfire in our province's history. Twenty-two-year-old Dalton Clark Stewart of Villagedale, Shelburne County pleaded not...
Jul 03, 2024
Man charged with impaired driving after 3-vehicle collision
A Scotch Village man has been charged with impaired driving after a crash in Mount Uniacke. The 75-year-old was arrested after he refused to give a breath sample following the collision Thursday morni...
Jun 28, 2024
Province 'won't get ahead' of 'CAT' ferry economic impact study
The province is encouraged to see a spike in passenger numbers on the Nova Scotia-to-Maine ferry. According to Bay Ferries, bookings on 'the CAT' are up 18 percent compared to this time last year. Ove...
Jun 28, 2024
Monument for homicide victim in Digby County vandalized
A homicide victim's monument has been vandalized in Digby County. The stone for Vernon Doucet had been removed from its location at a cemetery in Comeauville and spray painted. RCMP in Meteghan believ...
Jun 28, 2024 Storm damage; from NSP
Family doctor waitlist continues to grow in N.S.
The number of Nova Scotians without a family doctor continues to climb. The latest figures from Public Health show over 160,000 are on the need-a-family-practice waitlist. That's over 16 percent of th...
Jun 27, 2024
West Hants child reports online threat, leads to arrest
A U.S. man was arrested for sending intimate images to an eight-year-old child in West Hants. The child went to RCMP in May of last year, and said the man was threatening to hurt them and their family...
Jun 27, 2024
Weymouth man charged with second degree murder in 2022 homicide
An arrest has been made after a two-year homicide investigation in Digby County. Thirty-three-year-old Tyler Colbert Andrew Langford of Weymouth has been charged with second degree murder. It's for th...
Jun 26, 2024
Atlantic tourism operators battling high costs - CFIB
Tourism operators in Atlantic Canada are battling high costs. According to a recent survey from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, eight in 10 businesses expect little growth this season...
Jun 26, 2024
Court grants mediation between First Nation and feds in moderate livelihood dispute
A court challenge over moderate livelihood lobster fishing is going to mediation. The Nova Scotia Supreme Court gave the Sipekne'katik First Nation and the federal government until mid-December to fin...
Jun 25, 2024
