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**** CNS Media Release Province Creates Community Housing Growth Fund —————————————————————- The government is investing $2.5 million to create a community housing growth fund to strengthen the sector and grow the number of non-profit housing units in Nova Scotia. “Non-profit and co-operative housing play an important role in helping to create healthy, vibrant and affordable […]
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**** HRM Media Release Speed limit changes coming to Portland Street The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that the speed limit will be reduced from 60 km/h to 50 km/h on a section of Portland Street in Dartmouth. The reduced speed zone is between Portland Estates Boulevard and Portland Hills Drive. Crews […]
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**** HRM Media Release Municipality launches LakeWatchers Water Quality Monitoring Program The municipality is launching a new Lake Water Quality Monitoring Program called LakeWatchers, which will conduct environmental monitoring in 76 lakes across the municipality. The purpose of the program is to collect data, such as pH levels, to inform future actions to maintain or […]
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**** NSHA Media Release Missing patient located and returned to hospital Nova Scotia Health is advising that the patient reported missing on April 19 has been located and returned to hospital. We thank those who assisted in locating this patient.
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**** HRP Media Release Police seize firearms and charge four people Police have charged four people in relation to two separate incidents on the weekend where firearms were seized in Halifax. On April 16 at approximately 4:50 a.m. officers attempted to stop a vehicle after it failed to stop at a stop sign […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police issue 58 tickets for speeding and other vehicle-related offences Last Thursday, the Halifax Regional Police Traffic Unit issued 58 tickets for motor vehicle-related offences. On April 14, members issued 58 summary offence tickets: 35 for speeding, 10 for driving without insurance and 13 for other offences including using […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police conducting search warrant Update: Police no longer on scene at Joseph Young Street in Dartmouth Police are no longer on scene at a residence on Joseph Young Street in Dartmouth. The investigation is ongoing. Police are conducting a search warrant at a Dartmouth residence in relation to an ongoing investigation. […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Have you seen this utility trailer? Inverness County District RCMP is investigating the theft of a silver 2019 N&N RD82192G14K trailer, bearing Nova Scotia licence plate T455615. The trailer was stolen sometime between April 8 and April 10, 2022, from a work site on Big Brook Rd. in River Denys. Anyone […]
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**** Info via Environment Canada —- ENDED Rainfall warning in effect Rain, at times heavy, is expected. Total rainfall: 30 to 60 mm. Locations: Atlantic coastal counties of Nova Scotia from Halifax through Yarmouth. Time span: mid to late morning today until late this evening. Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on […]
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**** Info via Hope for Wildlife Did you know that mother deer leave their fawns alone on purpose? Many of the calls on deer we receive at Hope for Wildlife are for fawns that are found by themselves without a mother around. This may seem scary for human parents, but in the animal kingdom it […]
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