Paul Palmeter

Several provincial sports organizations in Nova Scotia are coming together to support young officials and to combat referee and umpire abuse.

A new high-tech 3D imaging scanner will soon be used for nuclear medicine care in a Halifax hospital complex and Nova Scotia Health hope it will improve care and cut down wait times.

A family-owned Nova Scotia business that operates seniors’ facilities is donating $3.5 million to three universities in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The aim is to use artificial intelligence and other technologies to help decision making and policy planning.

Health Minister Michelle Thompson has announced that fencing and excavation work will begin this spring at the site of a planned acute-care tower at the QEll Health Sciences Centre’s Halifax Infirmary.

Liberal leader Zach Churchill says new rules for the province’s heating assistance program will leave some Nova Scotians in the cold.

A new pilot program, the first of its kind in Canada, will soon help seniors in the Preston area, Kings County and on the Halifax peninsula live more independently in their homes.

The Metro Basketball Association, a minor basketball organization in Nova Scotia, is banning spectators from weekend games in an effort to educate coaches and parents about their behaviour toward officials.

A trio of Nova Scotian hockey players will be wearing Canadian jerseys at upcoming world junior hockey championship tournaments.

A group of adult learners in Digby County are packing meal bags as part of a new pilot program at the Digby Area Learning Association.

Renovations will include larger decks that will be fully accessible, making it much more inclusive for anyone with mobility issues. Club executives say the massive renovation will not impact summer programming in 2024.

People living near some Halifax pickleball courts have been complaining for three years about the noise problem and want the municipality to fix it.

The Nova Scotia government says it is creating a new funding stream to support income assistance clients with a disability or serious medical condition.

Canada’s top curlers who are on the road to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy will go through Nova Scotia. Curling Canada announced in Halifax on Wednesday that three Olympic qualifiers will be played in Halifax, Liverpool and Wolfville.

A local angler wants to see a new gate at Lock 5 Park on Grand Lake opened so that people can continue to launch their small boats to fish for striped bass.

Brad Marchand, Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon are the household names, but there are more Nova Scotians playing in the NHL than that.

The new Hockey Canada policy takes aim at “minimum requirements of attire” in dressing rooms. If players don’t wear the base layer, they will have to change into it inside a closed washroom stall at the rink.

The security team has made over 3,600 interventions with the public in the last year, warning them to stay away from rocks close to the water's edge.

A Nova Scotia has rejected an application for a ministerial review of an emergency order that filled Lake Pisiquid.

Nova Scotians are have rallied to collect sports equipment for those affected by the recent wildfires in the province. More than 200 families in Hammonds Plains, Tantallon and Shelburne County have lost their homes in the last two weeks due to the fires. Many of those families have kids involved in sports.

Rebuilding and repairing hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed in wildfires will time, according to experts.