The jury was selected and received opening instructions from the judge Wednesday at Tyreece Alexander Whynder-Ewing’s second-degree murder trial in Dartmouth. Whynder-Ewing, 29, is charged in the November 2021 shooting death of Alexander Thomas at a ...

Approval of HRM’s 2024 Road Safety Strategy was deferred at Thursday’s transportation standing committee meeting. The strategy attempts to update the goals laid out in the 2018 Strategic Road Safety Framework and envisions zero road fatalities and ...

Thanks to online trends, kids as young as eight have been recorded shoplifting at the Sephora store in the Halifax Shopping Centre. Mall security say they receive the most shoplifting calls from the beauty retailer. “Most of the accused are in the ...

Updates on the progress of two major initiatives to change policing in the municipality were delivered at the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners on Wednesday — policing model transformation and street checks. Clocking in at more than 400 pages, a ...

Families in Hammonds Plains will soon have more options when a Halifax child-care provider opens a second location in the community. It Takes a Village Child Care Centre, located on Parkland Drive, has received $275,000 from the province to open a ...

An appeal by a Cape Breton father concerning his assault conviction and sentence has been denied.  The 43-year-old man was found guilty in 2022 of assaulting his then 13-year-old son and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to complete a ...

A Cape Breton man’s courtroom antics have cost him plenty.    In a recently released family court decision, Justice Theresa Forgeron ordered Paul Ward pay his ex-wife a total cost award of $15,250 of which $8,000 was assessed because of Ward’s ...

The Seal Island Bridge is reduced to one lane for maintenance until Thursday.  Work takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Traffic control is on-site.  Both lanes will be open in the evening and overnight.   The bridge will also close overnight ...

A 54-year-old man faces weapon and threat related charges after Cape Breton Regional Police responded reports that a person was in possession of a knife on Tuesday inside the provincial building on Prince Street in Sydney. Police responded at 8:40 ...

It’s impossible to watch your kid suffer. “As a parent, I just wish that I could take it all away so she doesn’t have to go through all that,” said Lisa Ali, mom of Tahlia Ali. After finally getting a double-lung transplant in 2020 after COVID ...