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Pace of outage restoration slows in Nova Scotia
The pace of restoration slowed Thursday as Nova Scotia Power turned its attention to smaller outages across the province. As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, the number stood at about 28,000, only about 5,000 fewer than the early morning count. That was a ...
Legal lockout: Crane collapse keeps Halifax lawyers from offices
Talk about a legal bind. Lawyers who ply their trade near the site of a construction crane collapse in downtown Halifax have been locked out of their offices. “We’re not allowed to go back into the building,” said Brian ...
Nova Scotia Power hopes to restore all storm-related outages by week’s end
Just under 63,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were still in the dark Wednesday morning, four days after hurricane Dorian blew through the province. “We hope we’re going into tomorrow with somewhere around 50,000 customers ...
Cleanup, school closures continue in wake of Dorian's destruction in Atlantic Canada
Students will get another day off today and many households will remain in the dark in the wake of hurricane Dorian. ...
Navy exercise ships moved out of Halifax Harbour ahead of storm
An impending hurricane has chased ships participating in an international exercise out of Halifax Harbour. “Unfortunately given the approach of hurricane Dorian, Maritimes Forces Atlantic has taken the difficult decision to sortie the ships ...
More Canadians are beating cancer
More people are surviving cancer in Canada, according to the latest report from the Canadian Cancer Society, but the incidence of many diseases remain high in the Atlantic region. “Across the board there’s good news related to cancer ...
Link between hurricanes and sea level worrisome, Dal researcher says, as Dorian chugs north
In the wake of hurricane Dorian, some parts of the Bahamas were simply swallowed by the sea. It’s a stark illustration of the connection between hurricanes and sea levels, according to Dalhousie University researcher Anya Waite. “A ...
Dorian likely to be post-tropical when it hits Atlantic Canada
As the extent of the devastation from hurricane Dorian begins to emerge in the Bahamas, anxious relatives here in the Atlantic region waited for word from their loved ones. Sky Buble of Halifax has family throughout the islands, including his ...
Golden bass caught in Nova Scotia a true angling oddity
Luke Osborne hooked a mystery last Sunday afternoon in Annapolis County. The Berwick man and his girlfriend Lindsay Tupper were angling for only a few minutes on Big Molly Upsim Lake when a good-sized fish took his Rapala Skitter Pop ...
Scammers telling Atlantic Canadians they’ve tracked their porn usage
The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning about a sextortion email scam that has targeted people in the Atlantic provinces. “We haven’t heard of anybody actually losing money to it, which is good,” said Kristin Matthews, ...
