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Nova Scotia’s jails are routinely failing to follow their own policies for handling inmate complaints, say prison justice ...

caption Jeff MacLeod of Dartmouth coached the German national women's hockey team at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championships in Switzerland. Twenty years after retiring from professional ...

Guilt is typically seen as a negative emotion. But for author and Dalhousie psychology and neuroscience professor Chris Moore, it was the start of a journey through healing, discovery, and a career in ...

Alderney ferry service has been reduced to every 30 minutes, instead of every 15 minutes, due to ongoing mechanical repairs on one of the ships. Halifax Regional Municipality said Wednesday in a ...

Halifax transit users are one step closer to being able to pay a fare with debit or credit. Halifax regional council authorized spending Tuesday of $769,000 for new modems on Halifax Transit vehicles.

The old Cape Breton Post building on George Street in downtown Sydney sits empty and for sale, with no recent hopes of a buyer. It stands like a fossil of what once was – a monument to the decline of ...

The Signal’s Eyes on the Road project explores the data and people behind pedestrian-vehicle collisions in Halifax Regional Municipality. Fourth-year and one-year journalism students in the news ...

Abridged versions of "Castles made of sand" were previously published by the Canada's National Observer and Saltscapes magazine. Driving west along Nova Scotia’s Trunk 2 on the north shore of Cobequid ...

Twenty pedestrians have been killed by vehicles on Halifax’s public roads since 2018. At least three more were killed on private roads. The Signal analyzed Halifax Regional Municipality’s traffic ...

Emily Grant, 35, wasn’t feeling left out—just left out of the conversation. “The less I connected with people my age, I felt it,” she says. “There are lots of great people my age, but they have ...

caption Newly-appointed captain Owen Phillips warms up with his teammates on the Halifax Mooseheads before a game against the Charlottetown Islanders on Nov. 9. Following a challenging 2024-25 season, ...