Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP say they are enforcing a provincial ban on burning and another on travel and activities in the woods that were put in place as firefighters battle raging wildfires.

HALIFAX — The largest wildfire ever recorded in Nova Scotia continued to grow Thursday as an adjacent fire in the province's southwest corner kept the coastal town of Shelburne on edge.

HALIFAX — As volunteer firefighter Mark Zawidzki battled eye-stinging smoke and flying embers to save homes from the Halifax wildfire, he realized its flames were headed to a neighbouring subdivision — and his own residence. But he kept working.

HALIFAX — In her final years of high school, teachers warned Ainsley Wallace and her classmates that going to university wouldn't guarantee them a dream job.

HALIFAX — As an unprecedented string of wildfires in Nova Scotia continued to burn out of control Wednesday, thousands of residents forced to flee their homes spent a fourth day wondering what their neighbourhoods will look like when they return home

HALIFAX — People living near raging wildfires in Nova Scotia are being advised not to spend too much time outdoors because of the health risks caused by smoke in the air.

HALIFAX — For the second time in the past seven years, Danny Osborne has fled his home because of a wildfire. In May 2016, he escaped the devastating fires in Fort McMurray, Alta.

HALIFAX — As a wildfire rages in suburban Halifax, efforts are underway to rescue pets that had to be left behind when owners were ordered to stay away from homes too close to the encroaching flames.

HALIFAX — Federal fisheries officials have extended the closure of the lucrative baby eel fishery in the Maritimes for another 45 days.

HALIFAX — As firefighters spent a second day battling a wildfire in suburban Halifax, some residents from evacuated subdivisions received the grim news that their homes were among those destroyed by the wind-driven flames.