During a recent move, Rick Howe spotted a cassette tape he hadn't seen in years. When he slid it into his vintage Marantz recorder, the sounds carried him back half a century and the voices took him back more than 100 years.

People with Down syndrome are living longer than ever and an ongoing photo project aims to upend stereotypes about them.

A new theatre production about the crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia shows a province attempting to make peace with a tragedy that happened 25 years ago.

Groups in Nova Scotia that help sex workers are welcoming plans by the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to revise its position on sex work.

The federal government is considering the removal of a strange structure jutting out of a beach in Three Fathom Harbour, N.S. Those plans have inspired a local history hunt that may show the sandy ruin is the final remains of one of Halifax's hardest-working ferries.

If a majority of both councils votes for the new plan, the mayor and warden would go to the provincial government and request a special piece of legislation to amalgamate without a plebiscite.

RCMP are investigating a "very suspicious" situation after human remains were found on a property in Springfield, N.S.