When Mount Saint Vincent professor Kyly Whitfield arrived in Cambodia to do research, she was shocked to hear babies there were still dying from a preventable disease.

Summer is when lots of teenagers cut loose: head to the beach, hang out at the mall or play video games. But 40 teens from across Canada are doing just the opposite this week at the Humanities for Young People summer camp.

A veteran reporter and journalism professor thinks part of the reason The Chronicle Herald won't settle with the Halifax Typographical Union is because management isn't interested in journalism and the business is making money from distributing flyers.

A mistaken report of child luring in Dartmouth, N.S., raises the question of whether adults should ever offer anything to children they don't know — or even stop to talk to them.

A restoration opera about King Arthur is being resurrected in Halifax, demanding performers be accomplished in opera, acting and magic.

People aren't the only ones suffering because of the wildfire near Fort McMurray. Wild animals must also find ways to escape, or become victims of the flames, according to Andrew Hebda, curator of zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax.

A 25-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who lives at a Halifax nursing home says she's been choked, scratched, bruised and harassed by other patients, and says such facilities are no place for a young person with disabilities.