-
1 month ago | 
msn.com | Mitchell Bailey |Rebecca Lau
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
-
Jan 21, 2025 | 
msn.com | Rebecca Lau |Mitchell Bailey
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
-
Jan 15, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
Store owners in downtown Halifax are grappling with the rising threat of theft. Last month, Halifax Regional Police conducted a retail theft "blitz" to provide extra patrols at store locations, but some business owners say they need more support because a lack of accountability is allowing criminal behaviour to persist. "If somebody steals, they need to get a record.
-
Jan 11, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
A parent in Enfield, N.S., is voicing her frustration regarding frequent school bus cancellations in the area. Cindy Taylor, a health-care worker in Halifax, said she's had to leave her workplace early on several occasions - driving more than 300 kilometres in total this school year - to drive her son to and from school when his bus is cancelled.
-
Dec 18, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
A Halifax man says he's without a place to live after returning home from work to find his belongings thrown out of his apartment. While Nova Scotia's tenancy board said he has a right to stay, the man can no longer access the unit due to ongoing renovations. Floyd Poulain had been living in the apartment, in the Fairview neighbourhood, for four years. The incident happened last week and he is now uncertain how to proceed. "Kitchen table, lots of dishes in the cupboard, all gone," he said.
-
Dec 13, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
A family in the Halifax area says their world has been flipped upside down ever since their dog ran off into the Kelly's Mountain area of Cape Breton three weeks ago. Dawn Morrison and her children have been searching tirelessly for their missing pitbull Nemo, after he took off on Nov. 19. They've put up posters around the province and offered a reward. "There's been no sign, no sightings, nothing for three weeks. And so my family and I are desperate to get Nemo back," said Morrison.
-
Dec 12, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
Many people living in Lunenburg, N.S., and surrounding communities were left in the dark over the weekend, after a planned power outage dragged on much longer than expected. Businesses were forced to close and some homes went without heating for hours as temperatures dropped well below freezing. Melissa Duggan said the experience was made especially difficult because both her children were sick and her daughter was recovering from pneumonia at the time.
-
Jul 16, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
Calls are growing for Nova Scotia to implement a flash flood alert system after a child from the community of Wolfville died amid severe flooding last week - marking the province's second fatal flash flooding occurrence in less than year. Last week, police said officers received a report at about 7:40 p.m. on Thursday that a youth was pulled into a water-filled ditch at a park on Highland Avenue in the community.
-
Jul 12, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mitchell Bailey
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
-
Jul 11, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Mitchell Bailey
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said he nearly "fell off his chair" after learning that Halifax's council was planning to establish designated homeless encampments in historic parks such as the Halifax Common and Point Pleasant Park. During a media availability following a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Houston said his provincial government had previously proposed about 40 possible encampment sites to the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM).
