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Two people are dead after separate motorcycle accidents just outside Lunenburg, N.S., on Sunday. The first occurred around 3:30 p.m. when a Harley-Davidson trike motorcycle crashed on Highway 332, according to Lunenburg District RCMP.  While the details remain unclear, police say both the driver, a 76-year-old man, and the passenger, a 78-year-old woman, were thrown from the vehicle after it … Read More “2 dead after separate motorcycle crashes on the same day near Lunenburg” »

Emotions running high as wildfires threaten B.C. towns As the province enters the heart of wildfire season, British Columbia communities threatened by flames are under extreme stress and facing a range of emotions with the uncertainty of whether they’ll have to flee their homes, and whether they’ll have anything to come back to. Adblock test … Read More “14-year-old dies in motorcycle crash in P.E.I.” »

Nova Scotia RCMP has identified one of the bodies found on Sable Island earlier this month. According to an RCMP news release, officers discovered two bodies and a 10-foot inflatable boat on the shore of Sable Island on July 10. One of the bodies is that of a 70-year-old sailor from British Columbia who set … Read More “Police identify body of man who washed ashore on Nova Scotia’s Sable Island” »

The Nova Scotia Community College has completed the first two of seven on-campus housing projects, with its new residences at the Pictou campus in Stellarton and the Akerley campus in Dartmouth already fully booked for September. The province announced the two developments in November 2022 along with another at the Ivany campus in Dartmouth as part of … Read More “NSCC opens on-campus housing, welcomes 150 students in September” »

HALIFAX – The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent investigators to Newfoundland to determine what caused a fire aboard a fishing boat that forced the crew to abandon the vessel for a life-raft, leaving them at the mercy of the waves for two days. The independent agency issued a statement saying its investigators will … Read More “Transportation Safety Board investigating fire aboard boat abandoned by ‘Lucky 7’” »

College administrators and politicians toured the new on-campus student housing development at the Nova Scotia Community College, Akerley campus, in Dartmouth on Monday morning. The new student residence will be home to more than 100 NSCC students who will start school in the new year. Another 50 bed student residence was also unveiled Monday in … Read More “NSCC opens two new student residences, aims to open more by 2025” »

Police in Saint John, N.B., say a 34-year-old man who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant has been arrested. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Curtis Furlotte when he failed to report to the Community Correctional Centre in Saint John, thereby violating the conditions of his statutory release, according to a news release … Read More “Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant arrested after three-month investigation: Saint John Police Force” »

The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province’s slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters. Tera Sisco’s six-year-old son, Colton Sisco, died after the vehicle he was in overturned during torrential thunderstorms … Read More “Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after son died in flood” »

Dozens of emails expressing outrage, disgust and disappointment poured into the inboxes of Nova Scotia’s premier and justice minister after Brad Johns said he didn’t consider domestic violence an epidemic, and he now says that reaction influenced his resignation from cabinet.  Records released under freedom of information legislation provide a glimpse into how the public … Read More “Brad Johns said domestic violence wasn’t an epidemic. The response was overwhelming” »

Peter McQuaid was scheduled to die the following Monday, but first he wanted to see a priest. His wife, Connie, was apprehensive. The Catholic Church had staked its opposition to medical assistance in dying, the course Peter planned to take. As she put it, “MAID is not for everybody.” Still, she reached out to a … Read More “With assisted death, Christian clergy face profound questions” »