Skagit County’s commissioners have nominated nine people to serve on the newly created Technical Advisory Group, which will ...

What happens to water levels in Nova Scotia’s thousands of dry dug wells if it doesn’t rain before the ground freezes? “It’s not going to be good if we don’t get water back in the aquifer,” said ...

San Francisco Bay Ferry is once again partnering with Bay Area breweries to entice passengers to hop on board a boat and support regional small businesses. The public transportation agency has teamed ...

A professor from Acadia University is receiving calls about the drought in Nova Scotia. Ian Spooner says he recently heard from a homeowner in the Annapolis Valley who said their well had run dry for ...

HALIFAX - Two tracking dogs trained to search for human remains have failed to find any trace of two children reported missing from their rural Nova Scotia home more than five months ago, the RCMP ...

My preconceived idea of Nova Scotia was of a vast unspoilt wilderness, spectacular coastlines and great seafood, particularly lobster. All this is present and correct but it came as a surprise that ...

Beach patrols will begin this month across Atlantic Canada in an effort to find and rescue endangered sea turtles that may become stranded in the fall due to exposure to cold waters. The initiative ...

Nova Scotia has a $60-billion offshore wind vision to develop enough offshore wind capacity to meet up to 27 per cent of Canada’s electricity demand. The plan is huge in scope: 66 gigawatts (GW) of ...

1:54 Living wage in Halifax nears $30 an hour, report finds Nova Scotia’s NDP leader is calling out cuts to the home heating program, saying 46,000 fewer households are eligible for the rebate this ...

AYLESFORD - Nova Scotia officials have ordered more evacuations because of the Lake George wildfire in Kings County that grew overnight and remains out of control. With more than 200 homes and other ...

Sightings of the marine mammal captivate the public and baffle scientists Benjamin Cassidy The orca known as “Old Thom” swims in front of researchers in the Bay of Fundy. Gregory Rec / Portland Press ...