Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — A Walmart store in Halifax reopened this week more than three months after a 19-year-old employee was found dead inside the store's walk-in bakery oven. The Mumford Road location was closed after the woman's death on Oct. 19.

DIGBY, N.S. — Three men are in jail after they were charged with uttering threats, intimidation and extortion in a southwestern Nova Scotia community where violence tied to illegal fishing is on the rise.

HALIFAX — The four Atlantic premiers have paused their plans to respond to United States President Donald Trump's now-postponed tariffs on Canadian goods and services. Among other things, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Talk of a trade war between Canada and the United States raised alarm throughout the Atlantic provinces on Monday as leaders calculated the economic toll of hefty tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Canada’s famous prognosticating rodents were split over spring’s arrival on Groundhog Day. Ontario’s Wiarton Willie reportedly did not see his shadow on Sunday morning, which is good news for people tired of wintry weather.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste says his decision to drop out of the federal Liberal leadership race was partly motivated by a lack of money.

HALIFAX — A Halifax-area youth has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death last year of a 16-year-old high school student who was stabbed in a parking garage.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia RCMP officer has been charged with assault and placed on administrative duties. The province's police watchdog says the officer assaulted a woman he knows while he was off-duty on Dec. 20.

HALIFAX — A Halifax man is facing charges including attempted murder after health workers were attacked at the Halifax Infirmary's emergency room on Wednesday.

HALIFAX — Three hospital employees were injured in what Nova Scotia’s health minister says was an armed assault by a patient Wednesday afternoon at the Halifax Infirmary emergency department.