The Nova Scotia premier is preparing to travel the province this summer to meet with business crowds from Yarmouth to Cape Breton.

The government of Nova Scotia is facing questions about why it's creating a new agency while enforcing cuts and staring down a significant deficit.

A new report points out that Nova Scotia's digital economy enterprises face a severe funding shortage, forcing them to grow outside the province. The report advises stronger local support to help reta...

Debra Lalonde is still fighting for the $2,893 she is owed. She was one of 74 employees laid off in March 2024 when Global Empire Corporation closed its call centre in Liverpool, N.S.

As the provincial government contends with a housing market that faces a shortage of affordable units and problems with homelessness, Michael Kabalen sees an obvious answer: the non-profit housing sec...

Rents have been increasing at a faster pace in Halifax than in other large Canadian cities, putting pressure on affordability, says the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Workers at St. Vincent's Nursing Home have voted to ratify a new tentative agreement with the province, paving the way for an end to the eight-week strike that affected 36 facilities across the provin...

The Hants Shore Child Care association currently has 100 children on a waitlist for a daycare it has plans to build, but the project is in limbo because Nova Scotia has no money left to fund new child...

The Annapolis Valley Regional Library announced the changes Monday after months of sounding the alarm that their operations were on shaky financial footing.

Halifax-based company Killam Apartment REIT owns nearly 18,000 apartment units across Canada. It says it will complete in-progress developments, with no further projects in the "near term."

A Halifax mother is voicing her concerns about what recent changes to support levels will mean for her son in the fall. Jessica Slack tells CityNews Halifax that her son, Kaleb, was diagnosed with Aut...

CUPE accused the government on Wednesday of essentially repeating an offer that had been presented weeks ago.

Familiar faces are returning to old and new places as Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston prepares to shuffle his cabinet, CBC News has learned. Houston has called a swearing-in ceremony for noon today at...

NDP Leader Claudia Chender told a crowd of about 200 supporters on Saturday that if her party wins the next general election in Nova Scotia, it would undo cuts to arts and culture included in the most...

As roughly 28 per cent of Canadian post-secondary students face some form of homelessness, a study is calling on governments and universities to address the problem.

Striking long-term care workers stopped construction at a seniors' home build site in New Waterford. The Nova Scotia government responds to it.

Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it, say economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre last week urged Ottawa to suspend taxes on fuel. Maybe, writes Jim Stanford, he should ask companies to roll back pump prices, or demand a tax

The ongoing war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are impacting Canadian pocketbooks in ways we might not expect. Experts warn Canadian homeowners facing mortgage renewals that rates are...

A private company that’s received more than $184 million in public funds over the past eight years to care for some of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable people is now losing workers so quickly, remaining ...

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The minimum wage will go up in Nova Scotia on Wednesday, but at least one organization is saying the increase is not enough. The minimum wage in Nova Scotia will see a 25-cent jump to $16.75 an hour o...

Two landlords owning thousands of apartments in Halifax are reporting lower annual rent increases in 2025 than the year before. It's another sign the rental market may be stabilizing, a real estate c...

The Nova Scotia government is calling for a value-for-money study to determine whether it's better to build a new Cape Breton Correctional Facility using a public-private partnership or traditional co...

HALIFAX - After months of slashing provincial revenue, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has announced that he has been forced to entirely cut the Atlantic Ocean from the province.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he’s not changing course. A week after his government tabled a budget with $300 million in cuts that sparked multiple protests around the province, including two t...

About 2,000 people gathered outside Province House in Halifax to let the Houston government know cuts to arts, tourism, culture and heritage sectors would cause irreparable harm to their industries.

The Nova Scotia government says its 2026–27 budget will save the average family more than $1,400 per year through tax cuts. This sounds like strong support for families struggling with the cost of liv...

CCPA-NS hosted Friday event called "Communities Respond: What the Budget Means for Nova Scotians: A public forum on poverty, affordability, and the road ahead"

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As Nova Scotia bucks a trend of declining rents, the province’s housing minister says it’s proof that his government needs to keep working.

Amid backlash against increased enforcement on illegal cannabis dispensaries, the provincial government has struggled to explain how it assessed the number of those dispensaries. While the province st...

Heartened after picking up another member in a surprise floor-crossing, Liberals claimed Friday there are other Conservative MPs increasingly disgruntled with Leader Pierre Poilievre who could soon be...

After years of promises, the Progressive Conservative government appears poised to put funding in place for the creation of a child and youth advocate office.

Sipekne’katik First Nation is once again chastising the Houston government and says that the premier and two of his cabinet ministers are not welcome on reserve lands. The premier's office says it tak...

Families are still "desperate" for child-care spaces and some are still paying much more than the target of $10 a day laid out in the 2021 agreement with Ottawa.

The increase will take place in two steps, with the first raising it to $16.75 an hour on April 1 and the second elevating it to $17 an hour on Oct. 1.

The deputy minister for the Social Development Department said the potential cost and questions about federal support are the key reasons why the Nova Scotia government is not prepared to consider the...

Almost three years since her government made a massive health-care infrastructure announcement anchored by a promise of more beds, Health Minister Michelle Thompson says there could be other ways to m...