Erin Trafford

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• Making Halloween accessible for all trick-or-treaters

  Six-year old Van Bernard uses a wheelchair every day, but Halloween presents some unique challenges for him when it comes to traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating.

  Features

  Oct 31, 2013
• CFIA lifts N.S. apple orchard quarantine

  Larry Lutz says the 2013 apple season has been difficult since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency quarantined four of his co-op's orchards in May due to a suspected pest infestation.

  Environment

  Oct 24, 2013
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• Tough year for N.S. pumpkin farmers

  The hot sun through August and September caused what few crops there were to shrivel. Meantime, those same weather conditions have meant a bumper crop for Annapolis Valley apple farmers.

  Environment

  Oct 15, 2013
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• Dartmouth playground reopens after being torched in March

  After months of waiting, children visiting the Dartmouth waterfront now have a new and improved pirate ship playground at Alderney Park.

  Education

  Oct 11, 2013
• Outgoing NDP government lacked focus: Steele

  Graham Steele stopped by Global News on Thursday to talk about what went wrong for the NDP and how the party will rebuild in the coming years.

  Politics

  Oct 10, 2013
• Halifax Water bills Fred Lordly two months into dispute

  Halifax senior Fred Lordly received a bill from Halifax Water this week for approximately $137 -- the latest in a long-running dispute over his illegal sewer connection to city water lines.

  Environment

  Sep 25, 2013
• Openly gay N.S. candidate finds hate letter in mail

  An openly gay candidate in the Nova Scotia provincial election says she received hate mail because of her sexual orientation.

  Politics

  Sep 24, 2013
• Halifax senior reaches 1 month without running water

  Fred Lordly says he wishes he had running water again, but instead he spent part of Monday morning preparing for possible rain.

  Environment

  Aug 26, 2013
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• New high school in Bedford ready for returning students

  Going back to school typically means getting new notebooks, pens and pencils -- but 1,300 students in the Bedford, N.S. area are getting a whole new building in September.

  Education

  Aug 22, 2013
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• Rash of break-ins in North End Halifax have neighbours on edge

  A normally quiet neighborhood in North End Halifax is on edge after word of a significant spike in break and enters over the past few weeks.

  Crime

  Aug 20, 2013
• New N.S. sexual consent ad campaign gets mixed reaction

  The Nova Scotia government is running controversial ads to bring attention to the role of consent in sexual assault cases.

  Politics

  Aug 19, 2013
• Police investigating after Rehtaeh Parsons hate page hits Facebook

  Halifax police are investigating after a Facebook page aimed at smearing Rehtaeh Parsons appeared online Sunday.

  Canada

  Aug 13, 2013
• World’s largest solar-powered vessel docks in Halifax

  PlanetSolar is 35 meters long, 23 meters wide and can travel at a maximum speed of 14 knots, and it has travelled around the globe without ever using a single litre of gasoline.

  Environment

  Jul 18, 2013
• Dartmouth man creates crosswalk safety website

  To combat what he sees as a lack of meaningful action, Norm Collins has launched a safety website in hopes it will be used as an educational tool for people of all ages.

  Jul 17, 2013
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• Major gas leak in South End Halifax contained

  Police blocked off an area of South End Halifax Tuesday morning because of a major natural gas leak.

  Jul 16, 2013
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• Halifax teen challenging businesses to help fill backpacks for needy children

  Renuka Koilpillai, a Grade 11 student at Halifax Grammar School, is working with the Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank to help them with their Backpacks for Back to School program.

  Education

  Jul 12, 2013
• Rower leaves Halifax on 100 day journey across Atlantic Ocean

  It's not exactly cozy, but Mylène Paquette will be calling a 20-foot row boat 'home' for the next 100 days. 

  Canada

  Jul 6, 2013
• Reaction mixed to news of Windsor Street bike lane

  HRM city council is approving the creation of a dedicated bike lane along a main stretch of Windsor Street as part of the city's push to be more bike friendly and create three North-South bicycle corridors. The new lane would go down Windsor, cut through Quingate Place and end up along Vernon Street, south of Quinpool.

  Jun 26, 2013
• NS Strawberry prices in flux as local growers, retailers deal with virus

  Rowena Power's business relies on her relationship with local farmers and producers. That is why she was infuriated when she saw an ad outside her local Sobeys for inexpensive, imported strawberries.

  Canada

  Jun 25, 2013
• Halifax grads celebrate prom in style

  HALIFAX – It’s not even 10 a.m. on a Monday morning and Maranda Borden has already been sitting in a salon chair for more than an hour.  “It took really long because I had to get extensions in my hair to make it look longer,” she says as her stylist tugs at her tresses, wrapping...

  Jun 24, 2013
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• Students’ group encourages more international recruiting to boost NS population

  A provincial students' group is encouraging the government and universities to focus on recruiting more international students to help combat the dwindling population of people in their 20s.

  Education

  Jun 17, 2013
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• Thousands of hectares of NS wilderness to be protected under landmark conservation agreement

  More than 5,000 hectares of precious wilderness in Digby County will be protected for generations by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

  Environment

  Jun 14, 2013
• Traffic authority to examine road signage after two fatal Cow Bay collisions in one year

  District 3 Councillor Bill Karsten says he has contacted city staff and the traffic authority to have a second look at signage and speed limits on a stretch of Cow Bay Road after two people have died in separate collisions in the past 12 months.

  Jun 13, 2013
• NS to cover cost of gender reassignment surgeries

  Nova Scotia’s health minister says the province will act immediately to begin funding gender reassignment surgery.

  Health

  Jun 12, 2013
• Nova Scotia student has sights set on one-way ticket to Mars

  Most of us call it Mars. Some of us will refer to it as the 'Red Planet'. But one day, Tyler Reyno, 20, of Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia plans to call the fourth planet from the Sun his home.

  Science

  Jun 4, 2013