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New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and President and CEO of Port Saint John Craig Bell Estabrooks met in Ottawa today to announce the increase of Ontario goods being exported through Port Saint John in the last year. In 2025, Port Saint John saw a 153 percent increase in goods from Ontario hea...

The leader of the Nova Scotia's official opposition is calling for meaningful action from Premier Tim Houston and Nova Scotia Power after a proposed rate increase. NSP has applied for a hike of 8 per cent over the next two years and has been undergoing rate hearings since the beginning of the month. Claudia Chender say...

A Halifax man is facing child pornography charges using artificial intelligence. Police say it was in September when they learned someone was using AI to create and share child sexual abuse material. Tuesday, a home was searched and the suspect was arrested. At this stage, no evidence suggests any real children were us...

The construction of the new Centre for the Arts by the Mulgrave Road Theatre is on schedule. Artistic Director Emmy Alcorn says staff should move into the building by early March. She tells us that they'll need a couple of months to install the theatre equipment and make sure all the systems are working. The Centre off...

The federal government is investing $6.4 million alongside HRM to help protect an area of Dartmouth from flooding. Ottawa will spend $2,560,000 through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, $2,819,999 will come from HRM and an additional $1,020,001 from Halifax Water. According to a news release, it will involve...

Nova Scotia Power says the province came close to short, rotating outages during the extreme cold this past weekend, prompting the utility to ask customers to conserve electricity - a request that's rarely been made in past winters. The deep freeze pushed electricity demand toward the limits of what the grid could supp...

Independent MLA Becky Druhan says Nova Scotians deserve more transparency and predictability from their government after MLAs were given 30 days' notice that the Legislature will resume sitting on February 23. The notice meets the minimum requirement under the House of Assembly Rules of Procedure, but Druhan says doing...

Halifax Councillors have voted against proposed bylaw changes that would have required rideshare drivers like Uber to abide by the same regulations as taxi drivers. Mayor Andy Filmore says he was concerned that the changes would increase costs for drivers and riders while putting a significant burden on HRM staff. &quo...

A man is lucky to be alive after a fire in a Braemar Drive home. Moncton Fire were called to the two-storey residence at around 3 am Wednesday. Platoon Chief Brian McDonald says when they arrived, they found heavy smoke pouring from the second floor and attic. "The resident had closed his bedroom door, which he no...

A community-led initiative in Cape Breton is taking an extra step to recruit healthcare professionals to Port Hawkesbury and Richmond County, specifically from the United States. Gina MacDonald is program director for Cape Breton South Recruiting for Health, an organization formed to combat the shortage of nurses in th...