The assembled tourists squealed and scrambled to the observation deck railing to capture two provincial icons – the Peggy’s ...

Riot Women starts on BBC1 tonight at 9pm, with all episodes now available to stream on BBC iPlayer. It tells the story of ...

On a warm July night a year ago, crews dredging as part of an expansion at Irving's shipyard started pulling out a treasure trove of artifacts believed to be connected to the Halifax Explosion. In the ...

Everyone has heard of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, but did you know there was a second Halifax Explosion in 1945? The city was evacuated as a series of massive explosions rang out all night at the ...

MONTREAL, Quebec -- An unconfirmed report was received here today from Halifax stating that a fully loaded munitions ship blew up in the harbor of Rockingham, a suburb of that city completely ...

AWAY, WHO’S COUNTING? BOSTON IS GEARING UP FOR ITS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TREE DELIVERY, THE NOVA SCOTIA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY A 45 FOOT WHITE SPRUCE IS BEING DONATED TO BE THIS YEAR’S TREE OF ...

Filmmakers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis were inspired to make The Flying Sailor from a small blurb about a sailor they found while researching the Halifax explosion of 1917. As they were captivated ...

It’s hard to say when exactly the Christmas season starts — maybe when the songs start playing, or when red and green crop up around stores, or when the first few lights go up. But in Boston, a good ...

BOSTON (JTA) – On an unseasonably warm December night earlier this month, some 12,000 people flocked to Boston Common for the lighting of the city’s official Christmas tree: a majestic, 48-foot white ...

Boston's official Christmas tree has completed its long journey from Nova Scotia onto the city's Common. Nova Scotians have kept up the festive tradition for half a century now of cutting down a ...