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Sturgis city officials on Feb. 17 discussed several proposals and projects as part of an informational meeting

Vaccine delays mean the province is now 25,000 doses short of expectations, but Strang isn’t worried.

photo manipulation by the coast If Halifax Regional Police’s information organization skills were a desk, that desk would be piled high with mismatched papers and zero-context sticky notes. There’d be a bunch of mugs, each with a crusting ring of mold forming at different heights of abandonment, and three cell phones—one encrypted, one broken and one that primarily uses Facebook messenger to commu...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Council nods park master plan, downtown Covington traffic study firms Also approves company to renovate railroad bridge for Cricket Frog Trail The Dried Indian Creek Trestle Bridge is shown in this photo from 2018. - photo by Special to The Covington News COVIN...

White-owned retreat centres often leave BIPOC folks needing "a retreat from the retreat.” click to enlarge Members of Change Is Brewing Collective, Vanessa Hartley of SEED (South End Environmental Injustice Society) and Buy Black Birchtown co-founder Lauryn Guest on the Birchtown property Jessika Hepburn ...

Sunday, February 21 click to enlarge The Coast Nova Scotia only has one case today! Thats a relief after getting 14 cases over the last five days. "The case is in Eastern Zone and is related to travel outside the province," says the provincial C19 press release update. "The person is self-isolating as required." Note the...

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click to enlarge Halifaxs new sewage treatment plant was turned on in February 2008, and it seemed to fulfill its promised intentions immediately. All you had to know was that parts of the harbour were swimmable again, and the most expensive infrastructure project in Halifax history seemed worth it. By last January, the plant had been operating almost a year, facing every weather condition without a hitch. There was no reason to think the heavy ra...

Johnsa said former Assistant City Manager Doug Stacks was allowed to resign in August 2019 after he admitted taking a $10,000 bribe as part of a land development deal. Prosecutors say more than $65,000 in bribes were actually involved in that project. Real estate broker David Clenton Kennedy is accused of repeatedly bribing Stacks and Norman Nash, who formerly headed Lilburn’s Downtown Development Authority. Stacks, Kennedy and Nash are accused of jointly buying property they later sold to Li...

THE COAST It’s been two months since Tayvon Clarke decided to get the wheel for an indoor skatepark in Halifax rolling. His petition now has 5,500 signatures, but Clarke and other advocates are pushing for more. In January, Clarke and four other members of the Halifax Skaters Association met with mayor Mike Savage via Zoom, and overall Clarke says the meeting felt productiv...