Category Archives: Acadia Nova Scotia (CKBW)

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is looking to hire more enforcement officers in departments all across Canada. In a hiring notice posted on Friday DFO indicated they need more staff in all seve...

Get ready for a swing in the price of diesel. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has announced it’s invoking the interrupter clause to at midnight. “This change is necessary due to s...

Hospitals in Nova Scotia are getting ready to welcome hundreds more nurses onto their wards. Health Minister Michelle Thompson says 350 nurses who recently graduated have accepted offers to work in No...

The province is backtracking on a second aid package to help with high costs of living. The premier says the government is now focused on finding sustainable solutions to combat the rising costs of fo...

We are two weeks into the sailing season for ‘the CAT’ ferry. After Cabinet yesterday, Public Works Minister Kim Masland was asked about passenger numbers for the service, which resumed fo...

Another hike at the gas pumps. Regular is up over five cents after the province made its weekly price adjustment. It’s about $2.08 a litre in the city, and higher in rural areas. Diesel saw an i...

The province is reporting nine new COVID-19 deaths. The weekly update was released on Thursday for the seven-day period ending on May 30th. The report shows there were 1,563 new lab-confirmed cases an...

Nova Scotia greeted around 300 Ukrainian refugees with open arms on Thursday night. The last of three chartered flights from Warsaw, Poland in Halifax just around 7 p.m. A group welcomes Ukrainian ref...

A Liberal leadership candidate says Tuesday’s housing announcement by the province is ultimately a good move. Government announced 37 sites from the provincial land inventory that could be devel...

An investigation is underway by the province’s police watchdog after a man wielding an axe was shot by a Mountie on Thursday morning. Officers were called to a weapons complaint at a home on Hig...