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Some kids in N.S. don't eat on weekends. These volunteers are changing that
Programs in Amherst, New Minas and Truro, N.S., send bags of food home with hundreds of students every Friday. It's meant to help kids who might not otherwise have much to eat over the weekend.
Dog-sitter films explicit OnlyFans content in client homes, raising privacy concerns
A Nova Scotia woman says she was shocked to discover her bathroom floor and swimming pool were the background of explicit videos posted by her dog-sitter on an adults-only website.
Veteran from N.S. reflects on starting humanitarian group in Ukraine
Kate MacEachern is a Canadian veteran from Ballantynes Cove, N.S., but her service years are far from over. She has spent about two years living in Ukraine, delivering humanitarian aid to communities across the country.
Seniors craft 10,000 poppies for Dartmouth display
Residents who live at Oakwood Terrace Nursing Home have been hard at work knitting and crocheting an extravagant poppy display.
Nova Scotia family granted respite funding after 12-year fight with province
A family from Middleton, N.S., has been provisionally accepted into a provincial family support program after 12 years of being denied based on their daughter's IQ. The program is meant to provide financial aid to families of kids with disabilities.
Dartmouth daycare closed for up to 2 months after break-in, parents left scrambling
The Growing Place daycare in Dartmouth, N.S., was broken into in the early hours of Oct. 16. The building was flooded and vandalized, and has to stay closed for six to eight weeks while repairs are underway.
How N.S. university food banks are adapting to keep up with high demand
Student leaders at some Nova Scotia universities are having to change the way they run their school food banks. They say more students are turning to them for help each year, so they've had to figure out how to keep up.
Parents frustrated with growing pains at new Bedford high school
Just over a year after opening their doors, two new schools in Bedford, N.S., are still trying to mitigate the growing pains of high enrolment and surging student populations in the area.
N.S. making 'significant progress' on new provincial school code of conduct
The province says it is making headway on an updated code of conduct for schools, but the president of CUPE Nova Scotia says she and her union leaders have not been consulted on what it will look like. However, the province says it did speak to CUPE in September.
Lebanese Nova Scotians fear for family back home as violence escalates
As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East with Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon, members of the Lebanese community in Nova Scotia say they feel helpless and worried for their family's safety.