Kayla Hounsell

Wild blueberry growers expect wildfires to spark new growth in Nova Scotia. Blueberry plants are more resilient than most due to their large root systems beneath the ground.

Health-care workers who gained experience in the refugee camp where they also lived are about to be continuing care assistants at a new nursing home in Nova Scotia. They’ve come to Canada through a federal program that seeks to bridge the gap between displaced people and a labour shortage in this country.

More than 3,000 tiny beetles have been shipped across the country from their native British Columbia to try to control an invasive species killing Nova Scotia’s hemlock trees.

Equestrian events across Nova Scotia are being cancelled in an effort to prevent the spread of equine herpesvirus-1, after an outbreak a local veterinarian says has killed four horses.

In what may be a Canadian first, a Nova Scotia veteran says she feels validated after the Veterans Review and Appeal Board overturned a decision by Veterans Affairs Canada and recognized the trauma she experienced after an alleged sexual assault as a critical injury, granting her the lump sum payment of $84,203.

As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities.

The ECMA launched a “Dry January” initiative for the first time this year because artists are increasingly talking about alcohol being so intrinsically linked to their industry.

Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year — the third shutdown in five years — putting 1,100 people out of work.

Nova Scotia health-care workers were recruited from one of the world's largest refugee camps as part of a federal program that aims to bridge the gap between skilled displaced people and labour shortages.

An Ontario woman whose husband died in a New Brunswick hospital while on vacation in 2023 is urging Canadians to advocate for their loved ones waiting in emergency rooms, and calling on candidates in New Brunswick’s provincial election to address what she calls a crisis in health care. Three people died in ER waiting rooms in New Brunswick in 2022.