Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers lost power and three schools were dismissed early after a snow plow hit a power pole in Lower Sackville.
Alex Cooke
Online producer/reporter
Alex Cooke joined the Global News team in April 2021.
Originally from Yarmouth, N.S., she has been living in the Halifax area for 10 years. Alex graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) at University of King’s College in 2016 and has since worked in a number of newsrooms in Halifax, including The Canadian Press, CBC News, and NEWS 95.7.
When she’s not chasing stories or doing interviews, you can find Alex exploring Nova Scotia, playing video games and watching movies.
Gas prices in Halifax rose overnight to 166.6 cents per litre for regular self serve. All of Nova Scotia woke up to see the cost for gas spike by 10.1 cents.
The Greenwich Fire Department has filed an application for a judicial review into the municipality’s abrupt decision to close it down.
According to a survey from Narrative Research, 47 per cent of those polled said they were satisfied with the New Brunswick government led by Premier Blaine Higgs.
Schools in every regional centre for education in Nova Scotia are either closed or are dismissing students early as more winter weather hits the province.
A new poll from Narrative Research shows about two thirds of respondents were ‘highly satisfied’ with the performance of Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government.
Nova Scotia reported two more COVID-19-related deaths on Tuesday, bringing the total number of people who died to 202. There are now 48 people in hospital.
A 48-year-old man has been killed in the second of two crashes on Highway 102 Monday. Police say the second crash happened while cars were slowing down due to the first crash.
After the 33-year-old man from Bridgewater was arrested and taken to North Sydney, he ended up blowing more than three times the legal alcohol limit.
The money will go toward purchasing safety equipment like an aircraft rescue firefighting vehicle and a snowblower to keep airside surfaces clean.
The faculty strike at Acadia University has ended after the faculty association agreed to binding arbitration following failed attempts at mediation.
According to Halifax Regional Police, the 14-year-old boy robbed a CIBC in Halifax followed by a Toronto Dominion bank in Dartmouth.
New Brunswick reported three deaths and 17 hospitalizations over the weekend, as the province lifted its proof of vaccination policy on Monday.
The scam involves an automated call notifying people that they are a close contact of a COVID-19 case, or have tested positive for COVID-19.
Members of Halifax’s orthodox Christian community, some of whom have roots in both Ukraine and Russia, are calling for peace as war rages on.