Southwest Nova Scotia

• Canada’s largest lobster fishery, in southwestern N.S., launches after weather delay

  After repeated delays due to poor weather conditions, lobster season has officially begun for one of the country's most lucrative fisheries in Southwestern Nova Scotia.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2022
  
• Treaty education lacks amid N.S. fisheries dispute, Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat says

  "A lot of the issue really is that non-Indigenous Canadians just don't know the real history of the treaties," says Mi'gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat.

  Canada

  Oct 18, 2020
  
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• Nova Scotia provincial parks helping people affected by water shortage

  Parts of southwest Nova Scotia are experiencing drought conditions amid low rainfall this summer.

  Environment

  Aug 31, 2020
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• Halifax researchers tag great white shark in Atlantic Canada for first time 

  Ocearch is best-known in Nova Scotia for tagging Hilton, a celebrity great white shark who regularly reveals his location in a wry and charming Twitter feed that has almost 45,000 followers.

  Environment

  Sep 18, 2018
• Dumping Day delayed in southwest Nova Scotia for lobster season

  The opening day of the lobster season will now take place on Tuesday.

  Canada

  Nov 25, 2017
• Experts say warming water temperatures possible cause of major Nova Scotia fish kill

  Experts believe changing water temperatures could be to blame for thousands of dead marine creatures washing up dead on Nova Scotia beaches.

  Environment

  Jan 3, 2017
• Lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia delayed due to weather

  Impending high winds have resulted in the start of lobster season in Southwest Nova Scotia being delayed.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2016
• Lobster season off Nova Scotia closes with high prices, good catches: fisherman

  Lobster fishermen in southwest Nova Scotia say they're closing out the season with some of the best prices in a decade.

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2016
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• Quinan, N.S. residents keeping an eye on river levels

  People living in a southwestern Nova Scotia village that flooded more than two years ago after a record rainfall are keeping a watchful eye on two nearby swollen rivers.

  Weather

  Jul 3, 2013