A councillor with Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia says a cleanup plan approved by Ottawa will mean further delays in the removal of contaminated sludge that been a scourge on his community for decades.

The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary to two orcas from a theme

More than two years after an onboard fire caused the evacuation of the MV Holiday Island ferry during a crossing, a replacement ferry purchased by the federal government has arrived in Canadian waters.

A burgeoning Jonah crab population is proving a challenge for some Nova Scotia lobster fishermen.

HALIFAX - Canada's transport minister is ordering an audit of the ferry service between Nova Scotia and P.E.I. after a season plagued by delays and interruptions.

The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex Canada and make it the 51st U.S. state. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted an unambiguous response on X: “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”

The race to establish Canada’s first commercial green hydrogen plant has thinned out, casting doubt on the industry’s potential, but Nova Scotia’s energy minister is undeterred.

The province announced its latest environmental approval today for 20 turbines in the Melvin Lake wind farm, about 30 kilometres northwest of Halifax.

Canadian leaders expressed relief that broad tariffs were not applied to Canadian products on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Bank of Nova Scotia trades near $74 at the time of writing. The stock is up about 20% in the past year but is still way off the $93 it reached three years ago and has underperformed its large Canadian peers over the past five years.

The Nova Scotia government says a program to bring wind-generated electricity to 11 large customers is keeping the province on track to meet its goal of producing 80 per cent of its electricity with renewables by 2030.

The central bank’s interest rate currently sits at 3.25 per cent, the top-line of the bank’s neutral range. In December, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said policymakers would take a more “gradual approach” to reductions of the policy rate moving forward.