Category Archives: News
Grand Lake: Tests for blue-green algae toxins underway
The Department of Environment and Climate Change is testing water samples taken from Grand Lake and Fish Lake, near the Wellington and Enfield areas, for two types of toxins produced by blue-green alg...
Jun 10, 2021 Officials take samples of water at Grand Lake. Photo: Communications Nova Scotia
RCMP charge 16 with stunting, one almost 100 km/h over the limit
Provincial RCMP have charged 16 people with stunting, five caught travelling at speeds officers describe as of "significant concern." A driver was clocked at 98 km/h over the limit in Masstown and her...
Jun 10, 2021
Life After Covid
With the recent release of the re-opening plans by each of the four Atlantic Provinces, David and Don, in conversation with Huddle editor Mark Leger, look at the opportunities to jump-start the econom...
Jun 10, 2021
'We gather with broken hearts': Nova Scotians honour family who died in Ontario attack
Nova Scotians gathered in Halifax on Wednesday night to honour the four members of a Muslim family who police say were killed in a hate-motivated attack in Ontario earlier this week. The Ummah Masjid ...
Jun 10, 2021 Premier Iain Rankin. (Credit: Ummah Masjid And Community Center)
Two of four schools closed by COVID-19 exposures reopen
Students at a pair of Halifax schools closed by COVID-19 exposures are back in class Thursday. Students at Graham Creighton Junior High and the Dartmouth Campus of the Bedford & Forsyth Education ...
Jun 10, 2021 Tomash Devenishek / CC
Potential COVID-19 exposure list (June 9)
Public Health is advising of potential exposure to COVID-19 at various locations in the Central and Eastern Zones, plus three Halifax Transit routes. Anyone who worked at or visited the following loca...
Jun 10, 2021 sergio santos / CC
UPDATED: Emergency alert issued for Grand Lake water supply
An emergency alert has been issued for the water supply at Grand Lake. The alert says an unknown issue with the water has sent one person to hospital and caused animals to die. All residents who draw ...
Jun 10, 2021 Eric Norris / CC
COVID case reported at Fairview Junior High
Nova Scotia is reporting a COVID-19 case connected to Fairview Junior High. The school will close to students until Monday, June 14, to allow for testing of close contacts and a deep cleaning of the s...
Jun 09, 2021 Kanijoman / CC
City offers free parking to help businesses
The Halifax Regional Municipality will spend $184,000 on a parking program designed to lure people back into the city's downtown centres. The program, which Halifax Regional Council approved on June 8...
Jun 09, 2021 Parking kiosk in Halifax (Photo: Steve MacArthur)
Man facing 11 charges in relation to robbery
Police have charged a man in relation to a robbery that occurred in Dartmouth earlier this week. At approximately 6 p.m. on June 7, a man armed with a knife approached a woman who was walking in the a...
Jun 09, 2021
