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• Parent of child with rare form of epilepsy distressed over N.S. ER closures

  Kristen Hayes lives close to the hospital in Yarmouth, N.S., but she says that twice in the past month, her son, who has a rare form of epilepsy, has been taken by ambulance to the emergency room there, only to be left waiting.

  

• Halifax District RCMP investigating homicide in East Preston

  Police say they received a report around 2 a.m. on Sunday of a suspicious death. Upon arriving to the scene, officers found the body of a deceased man on the side of the road at the end of a driveway.

  

• Revitalizing the sport of hockey in Glace Bay, N.S.

  For the first time, two female university hockey teams will lace up their skates at the Miners Forum.

• N.S. man, 36, facing life-threatening injuries after collision

  The driver of the motorcycle, a 36-year-old man from Indian Brook, suffered life-threatening injuries and had to be airlifted to hospital by LifeFlight.

• New Brunswick's first confirmed case of Monkeypox not travel-related

  At this time, the Monkeypox vaccine is not widely available to the public.

• Cabin owners in central Newfoundland warned to stop using closed roads

  Officials in central Newfoundland are asking people to stop using forest roads to check on their cabins even though the threat of wildfires has eased for local communities and a state of emergency has been lifted.

• Some students at Maritime universities will need to mask up in class and labs

  Halifax's Dalhousie University is the latest post-secondary institution to announce they will require masks to be worn in all indoor classrooms and instructional spaces when students return in September.

• Halifax's Meagher Park, used as encampment by homeless, cleared out and fenced off

  Halifax police say a city park that has been used as an encampment for homeless people has been cleared out and fenced off.

• Booming business: Cape Breton Island tourism making up for lost time

  After the COVID-19 pandemic plagued the past few years, people are travelling again and businesses on Cape Breton Island are busier than ever.

• Ukrainian doctor fighting to work in Nova Scotia

  The Ukrainian-trained general practitioner and gynaecologist had a meeting Friday morning with operators of a program to integrate foreign educated health professionals, and now he finally has the ball rolling.

• Moncton house fire sends one person to hospital

  There’s no official word on the cause of the fire, but the Acting Chief for Moncton Fire, Captain Scott Brown, described the incident to CTV Atlantic as a “small kitchen fire.”

• ‘Colleagues are having panic attacks’: Fredericton ER physician outlines ideas to help ailing healthcare system

  An emergency department physician at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton has spent the last several weeks and months gathering input and ideas from his colleagues, the general public, and his own experiences, on how to help alleviate the stress on New Brunswick’s healthcare system.