On Wednesday, Insp. Don Moser presented the RCMP's after-action report of the wildfire last May to the city's board of police commissioners.

A longtime Halifax Regional Police officer has been hired to lead the municipal force, and will be the city's first permanentBlack chief in HRP history.

The Nova Scotia government is sharing more details about how it will help municipalities handle coastal protection, months after abandoning legislation that would have brought in provincewide rules.

Halifax is considering a new way to better protect lake and river systems in the municipality, and residents would be among those leading the way.

Shaun Allen is among a growing number of Nova Scotians turning to RVs or trailers as permanent housing amid the housing crisis. But there's a patchwork of rules across the province, and municipalities differ on whether it's legal to allow them permanently at all.

Municipal staff are scaling back proposed density in the Village of Chester, after an outpouring of concern from residents led councillors to reject current plans.

As questions remain about why an emergency alert wasn't requested by any municipality during the recent flash flooding in Nova Scotia, one fire chief says there wasn't enough support from local emergency officials who don't appear to have followed their own policies.