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**** HEALTH/WELLNESS Media Release No New Cases of COVID-19 —————————————————————————————————————– As of today, June 28, Nova Scotia continues to have no active cases of COVID-19. The last new case was identified on June 9. The QEII Health Sciences Centre’s microbiology lab completed 381 Nova Scotia tests on Saturday, June 27 and is operating 24-hours. There […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police Investigate Impaired Driver and Vehicle Collision At 8:44 p.m., on the 27th of June, Halifax Regional Police received a report of a two vehicle collision in the 160 block of Ketch Harbour Road, Herring Cove. Officers arrested a 26 year old female driver at the scene for impaired driving. No one in either […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Stunting driver charged: 62 km/hr over the limit On June 25 at 9:24 p.m., a member of the RCMP’s Northeast Traffic Services was on patrol on Hwy. 125 between Exits 3 and 4 and spotted a car travelling at a high rate of speed and passing several vehicles in the passing […]
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**** Info via Environment Canada The colours of lightning Have you ever noticed that a lightning’s flash isn’t always a bright white colour? That’s because there are invariably different particles in the air between you and the flash. All lightning starts out as white lightning as it contains the entire spectrum of colour. Haze, […]
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**** HEALTH/WELLNESS Media Release No New Cases of COVID-19 —————————————————————– As of today, June 27, Nova Scotia continues to have no active cases of COVID-19. The last new case was identified on June 9. The QEII Health Sciences Centre’s microbiology lab completed 386 Nova Scotia tests on Friday, June 26 and is operating 24-hours. There […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police Investigate Personal Watercraft Collision – Halifax Harbour At 7:17 p.m., on the 26th of June, Halifax Regional Police received a 911 call reporting two personal watercraft colliding on Halifax Harbour near the MacDonald Bridge. A 15 year old male operating one of the watercraft sustained serious life threatening injuries. The […]
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**** HRM Media Release Response to COVID-19: Update on pools, recreation facilities and events The Halifax Regional Municipality continues to monitor and respond to the rapidly evolving effects of COVID-19. The following is an update from Parks & Recreation. Pools and Splashpads The municipality will be reviewing the details of today’s announcement by […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Practice sober and respectful operation of boats and watercraft In Nova Scotia, the RCMP treats all cases of operating a boat or personal watercraft while impaired the same that they would a case of impaired driving. The fines and penalties are the same in order to reflect the severity of impaired […]
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**** HEALTH/WELLNESS Media Release Further Lifting of Restrictions, New Gathering Limits —————————————————————– Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health for Nova Scotia, announced today, June 26, further lifting of restrictions given Nova Scotia’s continued low rates of COVID-19. “We’ve now had more than two weeks with no new cases of […]
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TRANSPORTATION/INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL Media Release Weekly Traffic Advisories —————————————————————– NEW WORK HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY: Route 333 Route 333 (Brookside Road to Terence Road), will be reduced to one lane for paving and road widening on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 from 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Once widening is completed, work will continue weekdays […]
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