Environment Canada predicts five to 10 centimetres of snow will fall in the southwest, with some areas expected to receive 15 centimetres.

Environment Canada is asking the public to monitor alerts and forecasts issued in the days to come.

The heaviest snowfall for mainland Nova Scotia is expected on Wednesday morning.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement as a slow-moving low-pressure system will track south of Nova Scotia on Monday and then cross Cape Breton Island Monday night.

Throughout many communities that span the vast island, lies an on-going struggle to access mental health services to help overcome a national overdose crisis.

Red Rockette was first tagged off Nova Scotia in 2012, and since then her travels to and from a Colombia beach have offered scientists in both countries a previously unseen look into her species' movements and nesting patterns.

A famous treasure hunter and historian of Cape Breton island, remembered as a restless adventurer and superb storyteller, has died.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park posted the closure on its Facebook page, saying that there were water quality concerns at the beach. 

When the ferry can't operate it means motorists have to take a winding, 24-kilometre drive around the bay to go from the Trans Canada Highway to the Cabot Trail highway.

Aaron Shaun Young of New Waterford is charged with killing 54-year-old Jim Matthews in Sydney.