Nova Scotia·New According to Nova Scotia Power’s outage map, more than 4,000 customers lost electricity Monday night. Halifax Regional Police say a motor vehicle crash led to downed power lines. More than 4,000 Nova Scotia Power customers in Halifax lost electricity around 9 p.m. CBC News · Posted: Apr 08, 2024 8:45 PM EDT | … Read More “Thousands of customers without power after crash near Armdale Roundabout” »
Millions of people in Canada witnessed a rare total solar eclipse on April 8, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many. The eclipse moved over a large swath of North America and during the brief period when the moon totally covered the sun, day transformed to night with a show of streamers and magnetic loops dancing around … Read More “Everything you need to know about solar eclipses” »
10 hours ago News Duration 2:06 All eyes were on the skies in Meat Cove on the northern tip of Cape Breton Island. It was in the path of totality for April’s solar eclipse. And while the eclipse itself only lasted a few minutes, hundreds of people descended on the community to take in the … Read More “The eclipse passed in totality over this tiny Cape Breton village” »
Chris Hadfield is best known as an astronaut, but despite his adventures outside the Earth’s lower atmosphere, he’d never seen a full solar eclipse until Monday. “When I was a kid growing up on the farm, we had a partial eclipse and I was more excited than anyone in the family,” Hadfield told CTV News … Read More “People across the Maritimes take time to observe historic eclipse” »
An early morning fire near Wolfville, N.S., sent two people to hospital and destroyed a two-storey home on Monday. The fire broke out around 7:15 a.m. at a home on Newtonville Road, located just eight kilometres south of Wolfville. When fire crews arrived on the scene, they found a couple outside and the home fully … Read More “Fire near Wolfville, N.S., destroys home, hospitalizes two people” »
Make way for a memorable Monday as a solar eclipse arrives across the Maritimes in the afternoon. Parts of the region will experience total daytime darkness for up to three minutes and 20 seconds, as the moon aligns perfectly between the sun and Earth. The eclipse’s path of totality includes central New Brunswick, the western … Read More “Times and tips for Monday’s eclipse across the Maritimes” »
44 minutes ago News Duration 2:24 Tenants of a supported housing project described as the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada are speaking out about how it has helped them. The Overlook in Dartmouth opened last January after being converted from a hotel. As Gareth Hampshire reports, it’s designed for people who have had … Read More “Housing in former hotel offers dignity to people who were homeless” »
44 minutes ago News Duration 2:35 Some post-secondary students in Nova Scotia say the struggle to find an affordable place to live is getting in the way of their studies. As Taryn Grant tells us, a non-profit group based in Halifax thinks it can be part of the solution. Adblock test (Why?)
Provincial Energy Ventures, a privately owned coal pier in Sydney Harbour, is being renamed the Atlantic Canada Bulk Terminal and has begun offering services for marshalling huge steel parts for offshore wind turbines. Richard Morykot, an engineer and vice-president of the bulk terminal, said the company will still deal in coal, but it is undergoing … Read More “Company in Sydney Harbour launches new business marshalling offshore wind turbine parts” »
