Nova Scotia's environment minister concedes the province is living up to the spirit of the law but not the letter in allowing the Northern Pulp mill to continue to dump effluent past a legislated deadline on Friday, January 31, 2020.

After a more than four-year hiatus from politics, former cabinet minister Peter MacKay officially launched his bid to capture the leadership of the federal Conservative party before an enthusiastic hometown crowd in Nova Scotia.

After weeks of warning of the pending end of its mill operations in Nova Scotia's Pictou County, Northern Pulp now says it is committed to remaining in the province for the long term.

Canada's politicians have to listen to one another to address economic rifts that could hinder national unity, Nova Scotia's premier says, as he adds his voice to calls for changes to the federal government's fiscal stabilization program.

A decision by Nova Scotia's premier to keep a pledge he made to a First Nations community five years ago will result in the closure of an aging pulp mill and the loss of thousands of forestry jobs across the province.

Nova Scotia's Liberal government has passed legislation setting new emissions targets Premier Stephen McNeil is defending as the most aggressive in the country.

Scientists continue to wait for necropsy results that could help determine what killed a North Atlantic right whale whose badly decomposed carcass was found this month off Long Island, N.Y.

In what is being described as a first in Nova Scotia, conservation groups are asking the courts to order the province to respect the provisions of its Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. government is being urged to pressure Canada to do more to protect the endangered North American right whale population in order to avoid a ban on various Canadian seafood products.

As Hurricane Dorian pushes northward, emergency and weather officials in Atlantic Canada warned on Thursday, September 5, 2019, against complacency ahead of the expected weekend arrival of the severe storm system.