The municipal auditor general says the improvements would benefit all large capital projects, such as the redevelopment of the Cogswelldistrict.

The section between Brunswick and Barrington streets will be closed for 20 months starting April 28 to make way for the new Cogswell District street grid.

Halifax Water hopes at least part of a sewer project can be completed within the next six weeks even though the timeline is partly why the cost has more than doubled.

Peter Boyles, a municipal councillor for Nova Scotia's Pictou County,has pleaded not guilty to 24 violations of the Municipal Elections Act.

The Municipality of Colchester is still mulling over whether to keep the RCMP as its police service or switch to an existing municipal force, but doesn't expect to make any decisions until after the conclusion of the public inquiry examining the mass shooting that started in the rural county in April of 2020.

Halifax regional council has approved a new $1.1B operating and capital budget for 2022-23.

Halifax has a new five-year economic strategy after regional council approved the plan on Tuesday. It includes a population target of525,000, an increase froma population of 460,000 last July.