Category Archives: News
Gas prices are up in Halifax
Gas prices are up in Nova Scotia on Friday. The minimum price for regular self-serve gas is now $1.284 in the Halifax area, which is up 2.8 cents per litre overnight. Diesel has jumped 2.7 cents to si...
Jun 04, 2021 Jeena Paradies / CC
Potential COVID-19 exposure list (June 3)
Public health is advising of potential exposure to COVID-19 at one Central Zone location and two flights. Anyone who worked at or visited the following location on the specified dates and times is ask...
Jun 04, 2021 Olgierd (dogs, gear, equipment, etc., CC-only) / CC
Inflatable water park not coming to Lower Sackville
An inflatable water park featuring a giant unicorn floatie will not be coming to Lower Sackville after all. Splashifax had been considering opening the floating playground on the shores of First Lake,...
Jun 03, 2021 Unicorn Floatie. (Splashifax)
New School for East Chezzetcook
Students on the Eastern Shore will attend a new, modern school in East Chezzetcook. Derek Mombourquette, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, announced the location of the new school...
Jun 03, 2021 Tomash Devenishek / CC
Potential COVID-19 exposures (June 3)
Public health is advising of potential exposure to COVID-19 at two grocery stores in Central Zone and some Halifax transit bus routes. Anyone who worked at or visited the following location on the spe...
Jun 03, 2021 Halifax Transit Bus makes a stop on Spring Garden Road. Photo: Steve MacArthur
Police investigate stabbing at Chocolate Lake Beach
Halifax Regional Police are investigating a stabbing at Chocolate Lake Beach on Wednesday night. Police found a 27-year-old man with a stab wound after they were called to the incident just before 8:3...
Jun 03, 2021
Province in Crisis: The Fiscal Challenges Facing Newfoundland and Labrador
The recently released Greene Report underscores the financial difficulties faced by Newfoundland and Labrador. A province with a debt load of $47-billion, an aging and declining population, and an ove...
Jun 03, 2021
Former HRM councillor elected as Liberal candidate for Cole Harbour-Dartmouth
A former Halifax regional councillor has been elected as the Liberal candidate for Cole Harbour-Dartmouth. Lorelei Nicoll will represent the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in the next provincial election. ...
Jun 02, 2021 Lorelei Nicoll (Twitter)
Halifax: It's patio season
Many Haligonians will raise a glass to kick-off the official start of patio season on Wednesday. Restaurants and pubs can now open their outdoor seating areas as part of Phase 1 of the provinces re-op...
Jun 02, 2021 Photo: HRM
Police investigating Dartmouth woman's death as homicide
Halifax Regional Police are treating the suspicious death of a 49-year-old Dartmouth woman who was reported missing last year as a homicide. Sheila Patricia Madore was last seen in late July 2020 in t...
Jun 02, 2021 Sheila Patricia Madore (Credit: Halifax Regional Police)
