News | SaltWire | Nova Scotia

Featured News

Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

Transgender flag creator Monica Helms visits P.E.I. on Canada-wide tour

Updated 11 minutes ago |6 min read

Sydney lawyer appointed judge of Supreme Court

Updated 24 minutes ago |1 min read

P.E.I. man found guilty of cocaine, crystal meth drug dealing

Updated 43 minutes ago |3 min read

WTO countries to reboot dispute reform negotiations

Reuters |Updated 10 minutes ago |1 min read

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries in the World Trade Organization are resuming stalled negotiations on fixing its dispute settlement system by the end of this year, a document showed on Friday, after they overcame difficulties in choosing a chief ...

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife Begona Gomez appear on a news channel in a bar, following his decision to suspend public duties after the court launched a preliminary investigation into his wife, in Bilbao, Spain, April 25, 2024.

Supporters of Spain's Sanchez call rallies, leftists abroad urge him to stay

Reuters |Updated 28 minutes ago |2 min read

MADRID (Reuters) - Supporters of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prepared on Friday to hold rallies to urge him to stay on after he announced this week he was considering stepping down as a court looks into allegations of business corruption ...

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame pose for the media, ahead of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain April 9, 2024. Alberto Pezzali/Pool via

Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics

Philbert Girinema |Updated 39 minutes ago |2 min read

By Philbert Girinema KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the deportation plan to now let both nations proceed. ...

Leah Jenkins-Foster of Plaster Rock, N.B., middle, made the trip to Corner Brook to see where her father died in 1961 with her husband David, left, and their son Bryson, right. Contributed

New Brunswick woman honoured to take part in National Day of Mourning event in Corner Brook

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 49 minutes ago |7 min read

Last summer, Leah Jenkins-Foster came to Corner Brook to see the place where her father, Willis Jenkins, worked and died. As many visitors have before her, she fell in love with the area and vowed to return. Little did she think then that it would be ...

Fire at Brazil guesthouse leaves at least 10 dead, 11 injured

Reuters |Updated 50 minutes ago |1 min read

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours of Friday morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do Sul state fire department, which is still ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, April 26, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS

Blinken says Gaza protests a hallmark of democracy, decries 'silence' on Hamas

Simon Lewis |Updated 50 minutes ago |2 min read

By Simon Lewis BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday protests at U.S. universities over U.S.-ally Israel's war in Gaza are a hallmark of American democracy, but criticized what he called the "silence" about ...

Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2020.

US FDA says about 1 in 5 commercial milk samples tested positive for bird flu traces

Reuters |Updated just now |1 min read

(Reuters) - About one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S. tested positive for traces of bird flu in a national survey, with a greater proportion coming from areas with infected herds, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. There ...

An eagle tops the U.S. Federal Reserve building's facade in Washington, July 31, 2013.

Traders add to bets on September start to Fed rate cuts

Reuters |Updated 52 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Traders added to bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will deliver its first interest rate cut this year in September, after a government report on Friday showed U.S. inflation rose last month in line with expectations. Interest-rate ...

A man waits for customers next to his makeshift tent around Times Square, in New York, U.S., December 25, 2023.

US inflation rises in line with expectations in March

Reuters |Updated just now |2 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. inflation rose moderately in March, but that is unlikely to change financial markets' expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold off cutting interest rates until September. The personal consumption expenditures ...

A person attends a protest as people call for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel April 25, 2024.

Egyptian delegation in Israel for talks on Gaza hostages

Reuters |Updated 59 minutes ago |2 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Egyptian delegation met Israeli officials on Friday, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages, an official briefed on the meetings said. The official, who spoke ...