Author Archives: Kevin Northup

A National School Food Program will make life better for Canadian families, according to the federal government. They say it will save families an average of $800 a year in groceries. Jenna Sudds, the...

A universal rent-payment structure is coming for those who live in public housing. The province says over 1,400 tenants who still pay a fixed amount will move to the rentgeared-to-income model over th...

Violence in Nova Scotia schools was the focus of a Standing Committee on Public Accounts meeting. Earlier this month, an Auditor General report revealed incidents are up 60 percent in schools since 20...

A 71-year-old Annapolis Royal man died in a crash involving a gas-powered bicycle. RCMP believe he fell off the bike on Highway 201 Monday afternoon. He was airlifted to hospital where he died from hi...

Police are looking for a teenage suspect in a Dartmouth stabbing. It happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday on Alderney Drive. Halifax Regional Police say two men were approached by a group of youths, and one...

The Nova Scotia SPCA wants you to protect your pets during our current heat wave. Kevin Strooband, deputy chief inspector says you should never leave your animals in a hot car. "If it's too hot for yo...

A great white shark has been tracked just off southwest Nova Scotia. According to OCEARCH, a nearly 600 pound juvenile shark named 'Keji' was pinged around Lurcher Shoal off the coast of Yarmouth Mond...

Funding towards energy efficiency in the province's fishing sector. Ignite Atlantic was awarded $150,000 to support electric vessel conversion in Digby and Sheet Harbour. CEO Doug Jones says they want...

Halifax's professional women's soccer team now has a name. They'll be called the Halifax Tides Football Club, and play in the newly formed Northern Super League. In a release from the league, they say...

Andrew Lord is the new coach of the Halifax Mooseheads. The 39-year-old native of West Vancouver, B.C becomes the 14th bench boss in franchise history. Lord just won the ECHL Coach of the Year award, ...