HALIFAX: Premier Tim Houston announced March 22 that his government is investing $3.5 million to help volunteer fire departments, ground search and rescue organizations and First Nations fire departments recover…
HALIFAX: Premier Tim Houston and Dr. Robert Strang announced March 18 that while most all other province-wide public health restrictions related to COVID-19 will be lifted come March 21, masking…
HALIFAX: Premier Tim Houston launched a recruitment campaign on March 7, to bring more doctors home to Nova Scotia. Doctors who go to the Come Home to Nova Scotia website…
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia will start easing provincewide COVID-19 restrictions on Feb. 14. This will be done over three phases. “While we still need to be cautious, things are moving in…
HALIFAX: Continuing care assistants (CCAs) in N.S. are receiving an approximate increase of 23 per cent in their pay effective Feb. 10, so they will become the highest paid in…
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia will add 500 new beds in the long-term care system and is following through on commitments to build or renovate facilities across the province. The 500 beds…
HALIFAX: The provincial government says it will protect solar homeowners and small businesses in the solar industry with regulations that will stop the proposed net-metering charge in Nova Scotia Power’s…
HALIFAX: The Tim Houston government has proposed out-of-province ownership taxes that are causing serious concern for the Nova Scotia Association of REALTORS® (NSAR) and their 1,900 members across the province.…
HALIFAX: At the Jan. 13 presser with media following a cabinet meeting, Premier Tim Houston answered questions asked by media. The Laker News was among the reporters who did get…
HALIFAX: Since the last COVID-19 update in N.S., the province has had 29 new hospital admissions and 19 dischrages. There have also been three deaths related to the disease: —…
