Author Archives: Kevin Northup

The Nova Scotia SPCA wants you to protect your pets during our current heat wave. Kevin Strooband, deputy chief inspector says you should never leave your animals in a hot car. "If it's too hot for yo...

A great white shark has been tracked just off southwest Nova Scotia. According to OCEARCH, a nearly 600 pound juvenile shark named 'Keji' was pinged around Lurcher Shoal off the coast of Yarmouth Mond...

Funding towards energy efficiency in the province's fishing sector. Ignite Atlantic was awarded $150,000 to support electric vessel conversion in Digby and Sheet Harbour. CEO Doug Jones says they want...

Halifax's professional women's soccer team now has a name. They'll be called the Halifax Tides Football Club, and play in the newly formed Northern Super League. In a release from the league, they say...

Andrew Lord is the new coach of the Halifax Mooseheads. The 39-year-old native of West Vancouver, B.C becomes the 14th bench boss in franchise history. Lord just won the ECHL Coach of the Year award, ...

The province wants the feds to act on offshore wind. A group was in Ottawa to speak about Bill C-49, which would give the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board the power to regulate offshore ren...

First Nations could have a bigger share of the lucrative elver fishery. The federal government sent a letter to license holders this week, saying they're considering upping the quota to 50 percent fro...

Next steps have been determined for the future of the Bangor Sawmill Museum site in Clare. Fire destroyed the building on Saturday, it was one of the last water-powered turbine lumber sawmills in Nort...

Get ready for a hot and muggy summer. Environment Canada predicts higher-than-normal temperatures throughout most of Canada. That doesn't include coastal B.C. and the Yukon, where normal to below-aver...

A Nova Scotian had her name called at the PWHL Draft. New Minas' Mae Batherson was selected by Minnesota in the sixth round, 33rd overall. Batherson had been playing defense for St. Lawrence Universit...