Join the 2025 Emera Blue Nose Marathon (May 16-18) and choose 5KM, 10KM, Half Marathon, or Full Marathon
**** Via Bluenise Marathon Celebrate health, community, and Halifax’s beauty! Join the 2025 Emera Blue Nose Marathon (May 16-18) and choose 5KM, 10KM, Half Marathon, or Full Marathon. Your medal awaits! – Emera Blue Nose Marathon “The People’s Marathon” The Emera Blue Nose Marathon is the largest annual running and walking event in Atlantic Canada!...
Registration opening for Parks & Recreation spring programming
**** HRM Media Release Registration opening for Parks & Recreation spring programming The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that registration will be opening for spring recreation programs over the coming days. Parks & Recreation offers a variety of innovative, cost-effective programming lead by local, passionate instructors in a judgement-free zone. Programming is offered in...
In photos – The rough before the storm! Surfers in Cow Bay take advantage of the waves and big sun as HRM prepares for a heavy rainfall
In photos – The rough before the storm! Surfers in Cow Bay take advantage of the waves and big sun as HRM prepares for a heavy rainfall The area is a popular spot for Surfers, stirring up great conditions in a wide area...
Lace up for Life! – the first ever Lace Up For Life skating event, hosted by the Canadian Transplant Association!
Repost **** Via Lace up for Life Lace up for Life! Join us for the first ever Lace Up For Life skating event, hosted by the Canadian Transplant Association! This entirely free to attend networking and community building event is an open skate for all people impacted by organ donation – recipients, donors, families, friends...
Icy conditions in HRM
What do you do when you gwr a day off school and there’s nothing but ice in the city? Practice skating and hockey moves while skating in your driveway! Icy conditions have closed schools and delayed many other places from opening in the HRM. (sent to us)...
Ice fun on Lake Banook
People are out enjoying this calm winter day on Lake Banook in Dartmouth Info via Explore Dartmouth Dartmouth’s “First Lake” Hockey was played on Lake Banook as early as 1827, and certainly by 1850, though the game was then known as both rickets and wicket. Dartmouth is one of several locales around the world that...
In photos – Surfers brave the chill in Cow Bay ahead of a cold streak
In photos – Surfers brave the chill in Cow Bay ahead of a cold streak expected this week, for many starting tonight. . . . . . . . . . . – ...
In photos – You’re as cold as ice! The Darkside Dippers take on the chilly temperatures as they hit Lake Banook as part of their weekly dips!
In photos – You’re as cold as ice! The Darkside Dippers take on the chilly temperatures as they hit Lake Banook as part of their weekly dips! The brave took on the bitter cold today, some new and some veterans, as part of a growing trend said to promote health, such as arthritis relief, mental...
Emera Oval opens for the 2024/25 season
**** HRM Media Release Emera Oval opens for the 2024/25 season The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that the Emera Oval, located on the Halifax Common, is now open. Every year, the Emera Oval is transformed into the largest outdoor, artificially refrigerated ice service east of Quebec City. The skating surface is equal to...
Emera Oval closing for summer season
**** HRM Media Release Emera Oval closing for summer season The Halifax Regional Municipality is reminding residents that they have a few more days to enjoy the Emera Oval before it closes for the summer season on Monday, Oct. 15. Residents are able to enjoy the concrete surface for rollerskating, biking, skateboarding, in-line skating and...