Canada's major airports will soon have new X-ray scanning gear for carry-on baggage that officials say could speed up the trip through security and make it easier to spot potential threats.

The MacKay Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth will be repaved this summer, signalling what may be further traffic disruptions for people who travel between the downtowns.

Two people with the swine flu virus have died in Nova Scotia in less than a week, provincial health officials confirmed Tuesday.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter will leave this weekend on a trade mission to Vietnam.

Canada's child poverty rate has improved but the gap between rich and poor keeps widening, a new report says.

Nova Scotia is setting up an independent unit to investigate accusations of police misconduct.

Parents say they are unable to get through to Stork Craft, the B.C.-based company involved in a massive recall of baby cribs after four infant deaths.

Residents of north-end Halifax are ready to fight to keep their beloved recreation centre, the local councillor says.

The use of helmets will remain voluntary at Atlantic skill hills this year because there are no models approved by the Canadian Standards Association, say hill operators.

A jury has been selected in the trial of a Chapel Island, N.S., man accused of second-degree murder.

Health officials in Nova Scotia's largest health district say there are signs that swine flu infections in the province are slowly waning.

The families of four sealers who died after their fishing boat sank near the Magdalen Islands in March 2008, have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit against the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The provincial agency responsible for recycling has hired a Halifax company to turn used Nova Scotia tires into a type of rubber gravel.

A soldier who fatally shot his close friend in Afghanistan in 2007 has applied to be released from prison pending his appeal before the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

Halifax filmmaker Nance Ackerman is screening her most recent documentary, Four Feet Up, across Canada on Tuesday to mark the 20th anniversary of Canada's promise to end child poverty.

Joel Plaskett's triple album Three earned the Halifax singer-songwriter a double win at the Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.

A pedestrian in Amherst was airlifted to hospital in Halifax Monday after being struck by a vehicle.

Halifax-area residents will likely have to wait until 2011 to take public transportation to the airport, despite the airport authority offering $450,000 to get buses running sooner, according to a city staff report to council.

A man out walking his dog has found the body of a Cape Breton man who was reported missing two weeks ago.

The search for anyone who might have been when a stolen car crashed into a car dealership parking lot in Dartmouth, N.S., Sunday morning has been called off.