The Americas, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and festivities.

But the thing that everyone is looking forward to is called the ball drop, which is when a glowing ball is lowered down a big flagpole, to signal the start of the new year. A Waterford crystal ...

New Year's Day will affect businesses and services in Nova Scotia on Jan. 1 ... Glace Bay, New Waterford, North Sydney, Sydney, Sydney Mines and the headquarters office will close at 12:30 ...

A new report card is sounding the alarm ... the Canadian Centre for Police Alternatives-Nova Scotia report warns. And it comes as provincially-funded school breakfast and pay-what-you-can lunch ...

Halifax Regional Police ... New Year's Eve hours before the woman's boyfriend was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the latest in a string of intimate partner violence deaths in Nova ...

Police say two people who were killed in downtown Halifax on New Year's Eve are a father ... Since Oct. 18, police in Nova Scotia have reported three cases of men who killed their female partners ...

Ambulance New Brunswick also arrived at the scene. Police believe the driver veered off Route 2 near Summerfield and landed in a ditch, according to a statement. The driver died at the scene.

Ambulance New Brunswick also arrived at the scene. Police believe the driver veered off Route 2 near Summerfield and landed in a ditch, according to a statement. The driver died at the scene. An ...

Halifax Regional Police say a father and daughter were fatally shot on New Year's Eve hours before the woman's boyfriend took ...

HALIFAX - Two people killed in Halifax on New Year’s Eve were victims of intimate partner violence, police said Thursday, the latest deaths in a series of similar crimes in the province less ...