Each of the 79 received amounts of between $20,000 and $120,000 -- a portion of the $5.5 million received from the provincial government.

A Halifax regional councillor is planning to boycott all closed-door meetings about the municipality’s Commonwealth Games bid because she’s frustrated with the secrecy surrounding it.

“I’m very fed up about the way the bid is being handled,” Coun. Gloria McCluskey (Dartmouth Centre) said Thursday. “So much so, that I’m not going to sit in camera anymore and listen to any more of the information.”

Five family members of an American sailor murdered in Halifax last month snapped photos Wednesday of the spot where Petty Officer 1st Class Damon Crooks was stabbed to death outside a downtown nightclub.

The sailor’s father, uncle and three siblings arrived in Nova Scotia on Wednesday night, said their lawyer Hugh Wright.

KENTVILLE — Police have arrested a suspect after a man died under suspicious circumstances Thursday afternoon.

Officers with guns drawn rushed into a Webster Court house in downtown Kentville just before 3 p.m. after reports of a shooting or stabbing.

OTTAWA – All of Nova Scotia’s 11 MPs voted Thursday against reopening the same-sex marriage debate.

Three of them — Tories Peter MacKay and Bill Casey and Liberal Rodger Cuzner — voted against same-sex marriage the last time the question was before the House.

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Gordie Sampson says the news that he has been nominated for two Grammy awards is still sinking in.

“It’s freakishly fabulous,” the Cape Breton singer-songwriter said while grabbing a quick bite at Sweet Basil Bistro in Halifax before his appearance at the Songwriters Circle at Casino Nova Scotia on Thursday night.

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