工作的人建立负担得起的和老年人’ housing next to the old Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children are worried the municipality is unilaterally imposing delays on the project. But no matter the current planning dispute, those involved, and even a city councillor, believe the history of the property’s zoning reflects Halifax’s deep-rooted systemic […]

A Dartmouth artist’s second guerrilla road safety project has caught the city’s attention and this time, they called the police. Doug Carleton — known on Twitter as PewPew, @StreetArtNS — spent much of the last year working on a new kind of speed bump, and last week, he installed one in the parking lot of […]

The Gottingen Street bus lane is moving buses through rush hour faster and getting more people taking transit, but it’s meant towing dozens of vehicles monthly. That’s according to a report coming to Halifax regional council on Tuesday evaluating the 2019 performance of the bus lane, completed in late 2018. The bus lane uses the […]

A candidate for Halifax regional council said if voters donate more than $100 to his campaign, he’ll bring forward any motion they want. Eric Jury, a candidate running to be the councillor for District 12 — Timberlea-Beechville-Clayton Park-Wedgewood — posted a since-deleted video on YouTube on Monday, Aug. 24, introducing himself to voters. “I love […]

Halifax will have to pay more than $500,000 for last year’s deficit at the building formerly known as the Metro Centre — but like the convention centre, we still don’t know what COVID-19 means for the current fiscal year. On Friday morning, Events East, the Crown corporation that also runs the convention centre, posted fiscal […]

The municipality is on the hook for an extra $40,000 for last year’s Halifax Convention Centre deficit, and we still don’t know exactly what to expect for the current fiscal year. The province posted year-end financial statements for Events East, the Crown corporation that runs the convention centre, online Thursday as part of its public […]