Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Senior Nova Scotia officials heard how the government is falling short in its efforts to tackle intimate partner violence at a legislature committee on Tuesday, about one year after government declared such violence an epidemic.

HALIFAX — Three weeks after the Long Lake wildfire in western Nova Scotia forced evacuations and eventually destroyed 20 homes in Annapolis County, fire officials said some evacuation orders would be lifted Wednesday.

Nova Scotia officials say parts of the province's largest wildfire in Annapolis Valley have increased in intensity because of the wind.

NEW CAMPBELLTON — Nova Scotia RCMP say they are investigating a suspicious death in a community in Cape Breton. They say officers received a call about an abandoned car on Friday afternoon, believed to belong to a person missing from the area.

Nova Scotia officials say the province's largest wildfire in Annapolis Valley remains out of control. The wildfire, which began on Aug. 13, has so far scorched nearly 85 square kilometres of ground.

LAWRENCETOWN — Rural communities in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley that have been devastated by the ongoing Long Lake wildfire are rallying to support households forced to flee and those who lost their homes to the blaze.

A Nova Scotian scuba diver can still picture the moment he came face to face with a great white shark during a routine dive on Wednesday.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's largest wildfire destroyed 20 homes in the Annapolis Valley over the weekend as dry winds fanned the flames of the Long Lake fire that continues to burn out of control.

HALIFAX — Halifax Regional Police say an officer shot at a vehicle that had been driving erratically and accelerated towards an officer.

HALIFAX — Officials in Nova Scotia say crews are bracing for a difficult couple of days of firefighting in the Annapolis Valley as the largest blaze in the province continues to gain ground.