Category Archives: News
Potential COVID exposure at Dartmouth grocery store
Nova Scotia Health Public Health is advising of potential exposure to COVID-19 in Dartmouth. Anyone who worked at or visited the following location on the specified date and time should visit book a C...
Jul 25, 2021 Sobeys (Credit: Skye Bryden-Blom)
Porters Lake beach off limits due to high bacteria
Kinap Beach in Porters Lake is closed to swimming for the second time this month. The city indicates it's off limits due to high bacteria levels in the water. Kinap Beach is a supervised beach (weekda...
Jul 25, 2021 Brian Richardson / CC
36-year-old airlifted to hospital after motorcycle crash
A 36-year-old-man was airlifted to hospital after his motorcyle went off the road in Hillsvale. West Hants RCMP were called to the scene on South Rawdon Road around 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The driver of ...
Jul 25, 2021
HMCS Fredericton departs for first mission since Cyclone crash
It wasn't the big send off we've come to expect in Halifax as the crew on HMCS Fredericton departed on Saturday for a six-month deployment The crew will take part in NATO exercises into North Atlantic...
Jul 25, 2021 HMCS Goose Bay. (CREDIT: Skye Bryden-Blom)
Update: Both bridges open in Halifax
A planned shutdown of the MacKay Bridge has been cancelled for this weekend. Halifax Harbour Bridges says both bridges will be open. Crews were planning on paving parts of the bridge but it was called...
Jul 24, 2021 Ann Baekken / CC
Papermill Lake Beach Park closed by high bacteria levels
The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that Papermill Lake Beach Park in Bedford is closed to swimming until further notice due to high bacteria levels in the water. Papermill Lake Be...
Jul 23, 2021 touterse / CC
Two people facing 8 charges each after traffic stop in Halifax
Police have charged two people with weapons offences in relation to a traffic stop in Halifax on Thursday. Investigators in the Guns and Gangs Unit, along with members of the Emergency Response Team a...
Jul 23, 2021 Halifax Regional Police. (CREDIT: B. Jack Morse)
Drunk driver escapes police, caught two days later on unrelated charges
Halifax District RCMP has charged a man with multiple charges after a motor vehicle collision in Westphal. At about 5:53 p.m. on July 19, Halifax District RCMP responded to a motor vehicle collision o...
Jul 23, 2021
Nova Scotia Green Party kicks off election campaign
The Nova Scotia Green Party has launched its campaign straight from the back deck of it's interim leader's home. Jessica Alexander, who is also the candidate for Chester-Saint Margaret's, said during ...
Jul 23, 2021 Green Party Interim Leader Jessica Alexander and Interim Deputy Leader Jenn Kang.
Halifax police charge 26 people with impaired driving offences
Halifax Regional Police charged 26 people with impaired driving offences last month. Twenty-one were charged for alcohol-impaired driving, one was charged with impaired operation by drug, and four hav...
Jul 23, 2021 Halifax Regional Police. (CREDIT: B. Jack Morse)
