Nova Scotia News

ST. BERNARD, N.S. — A large, deconsecrated Roman Catholic church in southwestern Nova Scotia that was facing demolition has been sold. A news release says the St.

HALIFAX — On the night floodwaters swept through his Nova Scotia county, taking lives and tearing out bridges, Doug Pynch says he had trouble believing an emergency alert that flashed across his phone.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia police said Friday they would continue searching over the weekend for the last of four people swept away by a historic rainstorm, as details emerged about one of the children who died in the floodwaters.

HALIFAX — RCMP say they think they have recovered the body of a 31-year-old man who was last seen floating down a river on Nova Scotia's South Shore after his tube capsized earlier this week.

HALIFAX — A musician in a local heavy metal band and a six-year-old girl who loved dressing up like a princess have been identified as two of the victims who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Department of Public Works said Thursday it had repaired nearly 500 sections of damaged roads and 60 road shoulders since a series of thunderstorms last weekend caused severe flooding across the province.

Halifax officials said Wednesday the unrelenting storm that lashed the city and surrounding regions with as much as 250 millimetres of rain on the weekend was a one-in-a-thousand-years weather event.

HALIFAX — As torrential floodwaters dragged volunteer firefighter Logan Hope downstream, he held a woman's head over the surface and focused on a single goal.

HALIFAX — The RCMP have called off a search for a 31-year-old man who they believe has been swept out to sea after a tubing mishap on a Nova Scotia river.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP reminded people on Tuesday to use extreme caution on the province's waterways, as police continued their search for a man who went missing while tubing down a river about 80 kilometres west of Halifax.