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A 77-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after a single-vehicle crash in Clarke's Beach on Wednesday evening.

Man, 77, charged with impaired driving following single-vehicle crash in Clarke's Beach

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

A 77-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after a single-vehicle crash in Clarke's Beach on Wednesday evening. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. on April 24, RCMP received word that a van had left the roadway before crashing into a fence. Police ...

Officers with the Halifax regional police forensics unit, begin to process the scene inside a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre in Halifax Monday April 22, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Two 14-year-olds charged with murdering boy, 16, in Halifax mall parkade

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 2 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

Two teenagers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre on Monday. Halifax Regional Police announced the charges Thursday afternoon, saying two ...

Retired hockey broadcaster Bob Cole.

Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90

Lance Hornby · Postmedia News |Updated 5 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

Bob Cole, an iconic voice of Hockey Night In Canada , has died at age 90. The man who called so many huge games on radio and then television, from the 1972 Canada-Russia series, to Red Army versus the Philadelphia Flyers, to Stanley Cup wins by ...

Rejected lemon because it did not fit the food beauty standard

Would you buy an ugly apple? Big stores may reject imperfect produce — and that's wrong, locals say

Warren D'Silva |Updated 5 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

A lemon takes four to seven months to go from flower to fruit. Not to mention the hours taken to tend to the plant, water it and eventually pluck the fruit from the tree. Getting the perfect food picture for social media has cultivated a desire to ...

The Municipality of Barrington has approved a $10,686,954 operating budget, and a $12,251,153 capital budget for 2024/25, maintaining the property tax rate across the board for a third year. Kathy Johnson

Status quo for property tax rate in Municipality of Barrington

Kathy Johnson |Updated 6 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

The Municipality of Barrington has approved a $10,686,954 operating budget, and a $12,251,153 capital budget for 2024-25, and is maintaining the property tax rate across the board for a third year. The residential tax rate has been set at $1.07 per ...

Nova Scotia is set to welcome 30 new paramedics from Australia as part of the province's first in-person healthcare recruitment efforts.

Nova Scotia recruits 30 paramedics from Australia

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 6 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

Nova Scotia is set to welcome 30 new paramedics from Australia as part of the province's first in-person healthcare recruitment efforts. The experienced advanced-care paramedics recruited to Emergency Medical Care Inc. and serving communities across ...

RCMP arrested and charged a Bible Hill man following a fire that destroyed a residence in the town on Oct. 1. File

Beaconsfield, N.B., pair arrested after truck theft, flight from police

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

Mounties in western New Brunswick arrested a man and woman from Beaconsfield in connection with a Nackawic vehicle theft reported last week. Following a tip on April 21, West District RCMP say a Ford F250 reported stolen last Saturday was seen ...

No Mow May helps pollinators become nourished after hibernation. A study from University of Quebec – Trois Rivieres reveals a reduction in mowing can help increase the number of pollinators and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. CONTRIBUTED

WALK IN THE WOODS: It's time to give the pollinators a break

Contributed |Updated 6 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

Here we are with April winding down, the weather warming and the grass growing. Before going into autopilot and grabbing your lawnmower to mow the grass, let’s give it a second-thought for the benefit of valuable pollinators, because we are ...

A man walks past a logo of Amazon Prime Video during a launch event in Mumbai, India, April 28, 2022.

Amazon Prime Video to exclusively stream two NHL seasons in Canada

Reuters |Updated 6 hours ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - National Hockey League (NHL) and its digital broadcast rights owner Rogers Communications on Thursday signed a deal to stream the hockey tournament's next two seasons exclusively on Amazon.com's Prime Video for Canadian audiences.

Satrajpal Singh Rai hides the lower part of his face with his shirt as he is escorted into Halifax provincial court Thursday to face three charges, including attempted murder, from an April 3 machete attack on his mother. Rai's case will return to court next week, after he meets with lawyer Anna Mancini.

Halifax man accused of attacking mother with machete appears in court

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 6 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

A man accused of attacking his mother with a machete made his second appearance in Halifax provincial court Thursday. Satrajpal Singh Rai, 56, faces three charges from an April 3 incident at his Halifax apartment building: attempted murder, ...

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