Mahone Bay

• N.S. restaurant patio’s safety in question after 100-year-old woman dies following fall

  Tensions are high in Mahone Bay, N.S. after a beloved community member fell while walking through town, with many associating the fall with a new café patio built onto the roadway.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2025
  
• ‘I can’t believe this happened’: 2 found dead in home were couple, neighbour says

  A neighbour and friend of two people who were found dead after a well-being check in Mahone Bay, N.S., says he's in complete disbelief about what happened.

  Crime

  Jan 6, 2025
  
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• Halifax woman blames slow ambulance response in death of husband

  Anne MacPhee says the situation is unacceptable and the province has to do more to bolster the ambulance system.

  Canada

  Mar 31, 2021
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• Crowdfunding campaign helps raise over $20,000 for struggling south shore restaurant

  Owner Nathan Guggenheimer said the Old Black Forest Restaurant was able to make it through the summer months, but things became bleaker throughout the winter.

  Canada

  Mar 10, 2021
• New long-term care facility coming to Mahone Bay

  The new long-term care facility is adding 35 new beds to Lunenburg County, as the current Mahone Bay nursing Home has a capacity of 61. 

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2020
• Laura Smith and her songs to be celebrated by East Coast artists at tribute concert

  The 67-year-old musician died at her home in Mahone Bay, N.S., on Saturday after receiving palliative care for cancer.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2020
• ‘Hilton the Shark’ makes turn toward Newfoundland

  Hilton, who lingered last year near Mahone Bay, N.S., moved north after arriving this July, passing by Halifax and then Cape Breton this week.

  Environment

  Sep 7, 2018
• Nova Scotia’s South Shore communities calling for suspension of offshore drilling

  Mahone Bay, Shelburne and Lunenburg have written to federal and provincial ministers, urging a suspension of offshore exploratory drilling by British Petroleum.

  Canada

  Jul 23, 2018
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• Nova Scotia craft brewery is ready to offer a lobster-flavoured beer

  Saltbox Brewery in Mahone Bay, N.S., is now fermenting its first batch of Crustacean Elation - a creation that involved the use of whole lobsters early in the brewing process.

  Canada

  Jan 19, 2018
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• 600 kg great white shark ‘a little too close for comfort’ in Nova Scotia

  The 600-kilogram tagged shark named Hilton signalled on Sunday it was in Mahone Bay, a tourist town 85 kilometres from Halifax on the province's south shore.

  Canada

  Aug 9, 2017