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YARMOUTH, NS – The Yarmouth RCMP are searching for two suspects after a 77-year-old Yarmouth man was grabbed from behind by two men on his property in Plymouth, Yarmouth County, on Thursday and forced him to hand over money before the two ...

HALIFAX, NS – The stench. The smoke. The hazardous materials. And the question of what all of this doing to their health. It’s a list that Shelburne resident Louise Delisle rattles off when she talks about the decades that people ...

LAWRENCETOWN, H.R.M, N.S. - Death may have been coming from above, but Skippy the barn cat had other plans. Skippy disappeared Aug. 26. Ten days later, he showed up back at the hobby farm of owners Blair and Kim Davis in Lawrencetown, Halifax ...

UPPER WOODS HARBOUR, NS – Firefighters have gotten the upper hand on a forest fire burning in the backwoods of Upper Woods Harbour, Shelburne County, thanks to some overnight rain, a shift in wind direction and a little luck. Fire crews from ...

WOODS HARBOUR, N.S. – Fire crews from the Department of Lands and Forestry and several local fire departments including Woods Harbour/Shag Harbour and Island Barrington Passage have responded to a fire in the woods behind the power line in the ...

PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. — The crew of the MV Leif Ericson jumped into action late last night after receiving a distress call from a Nova Scotia fishing vessel.   The Sulia’n was a 45-foot First Nations ...

TUSKET, YARMOUTH COUNTY, NS – It was welcome news to those in the room that a proposal being looked at by a 2018 Electoral Boundaries Commission is to reinstate Acadian and African Nova Scotian ridings. Still, to avoid a repeat of 2012 when ...

MIDDLETON, NS - If Tammy Rose Connell could say one more thing to Allison Mahar, it would be that she loves him. But she won’t have the chance. Mahar, 39, is dead. Jason David Bezanson, 33, of Annapolis County, has been charged with ...

NEW GLASGOW, NS – A 33-year-old Annapolis County man has been charged with second degree murder after another Annapolis County man died at a hotel on Westville Road, Pictou County Sept. 7. Jason David Bezanson was arrested Sept. 8 and has ...

BARRINGTON, NS – Fire crews and a helicopter from the provincial Department of Lands and Forestry are battling a forest fire in the backwoods of the Barrington River south of Pubnico Lake. The fire was detected on Wednesday, Sept. 5 by the ...