The province's senior director of inspection compliance says the collapse occurred at an intersection inside the underground operation at some point over the weekend.

The stop-work order issued Wednesday was applied to a 730-metre rock face that the Labour Department had permitted to reopen in January after a series of roof collapses.

HALIFAX – A Halifax company has been charged in the workplace death of a 47-year-old man. Nova Scotia’s Labour Department says Shaun McInnis was working on the roof of a four-storey complex when he fell from the edge on May 9, 2013. Truss Worthy Framing and Renovations faces a number of charges under the province’s...