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More than a century after her last painting, Africville artist gets first solo exhibition
Edith MacDonald-Brown painted between the ages of 12 and 27. A new exhibit at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax features nine of her 13 known works. The gallery's director hopes the exhibit leads to more research on her life and potentially unearthing other unknown works of art.
'Feels like my mom was in the building': For this Moosehead, Fight Cancer Night is personal
For the second straight season on the Halifax Mooseheads' annual Fight Cancer Night, Braeden MacPhee has found a way to honour his late mom. MacPhee's mom, Jolene Conway, died of cancer in April 2023 at the age of 46.
Trump tariff talk boosts N.S. craft beer business
Nova Scotia craft breweries have seen increased demand for their products since U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, but they wonder if the extra support will last.
Known for forging wife Maud's artwork, Everett Lewis's originals up for auction
An Ontario auction house expects some original art made by Everett Lewis, the husband of famed Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, could sell in an auction ending Sunday for as much as $5,000 a painting. It's a figure that, depending on who you ask, can be attributed to Maud's fame or the quality of Everett's work.
Rule change brings players to the Mooseheads, Eagles who used to stay away
It used to be that people who played in a Canadian Hockey League game or attended training camp for more than 48 hours lost their eligibility to play NCAA Division I hockey. Since that rule was lifted in November, the Halifax Mooseheads have been taking full advantage.
Few saw her potential. Now she's setting records on the basketball court
When Kiyara Letlow started playing basketball eight years ago, she realized the only way she'd get her hands on the ball was to become a good rebounder. Today, she's the best rebounder in Canadian women's university basketball and leads the country in scoring.
Miners praise N.S. premier's call to lift uranium ban but environmentalist calls it a 'dead end'
The Nova Scotia's government's newly announced focus on more natural resource development is being panned by one environmental group but welcomed by the province's mining industry.
Passengers say plane filled with smoke after fiery landing in Halifax
The Halifax airport was closed for about 90 minutes Saturday night after a plane arriving from St. John's experienced a problem landing, which saw the plane skid down the runway and part of it catch fire.
How officials tried to contain fallout after a Halifax school bus went missing for 4½ hours
Documents obtained by CBC News show that a French school board member had previously warned the bus service was 'already a big problem, that it wasn't going to improve, and in fact, it was going to get worse.'
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Cape Breton to Lollapalooza: Goldie Boutilier's fall, and rise, to music's biggest stages
Musician Goldie Boutilier performed at some revered North American music festivals this year, but a promising start to her music career a decade ago with a major label in California turned sour and saw her doing sex work and struggling with drug and alcohol use.