There was an increase in gas prices overnight in Nova Scotia as the Utility and Review Board invoked the Interrupter Clause due to significant shifts in the market price of gasoline.
Gas prices went up 6.7 cents per litre overnight, putting the minimum pump price for regular self-serve gas at 154.1 cents per litre locally.
The price of diesel was not affected.
The Nova Scotia government has announced eight-million dollars in funding for transitional modular housing for healthcare workers in communities where a lack of housing options is a major hurdle to recruitment.
Housing Minister John Lohr says the modular housing model has been successful in other jurisdictions and will provide affordable places for healthcare workers to live until more permanent solutions are available.
The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia will work closely with government representatives and municipalities to identify locations for the modular homes in areas where there is acute demand.
Pictou County District RCMP is investigating after a break-in at a post office in Salt Springs.
Police got called to the post office on Highway 4 on Tuesday shortly after 8:00am.
The post office had been broken into overnight and mail, a parcel, stamps, keys and vehicle roof top Canada Post sign were stolen.
Canada Post doesn’t deliver to community mailboxes after regular business hours, so the RCMP asks that if you see a vehicle bearing a Canada Post sign at a community mailbox at an unusual time of day, report it immediately.
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court case continues today with more testimony about incidents in jails involving Brian James Marriott.
Justice Jamie Campbell is hearing the Crown’s case for why the Halifax crime figure should be designated a dangerous offender.
The court heard reports from a corrections officer yesterday saying that when Marriott was placed in isolation in September 2019, he claimed he could make a call that would create a “disturbance” at the Northeast Nova Correctional Centre in Pictou County.
However his defence lawyer told the judge there’s evidence his client was upset by what he considered to be unlawful detention in the segregation unit.
Police have issued a warning to the public about so-called grandparent scams.
Since mid-December, police have received numerous complaints from people who have lost money to scammers claiming to be seeking help for a relative who is in jail or has been in a car accident.
Police say they want to remind the public these fraudsters are very good at what they do.
To protect yourself from this kind of fraud, police say it is important to verify the information from an independent source, like another relative — and to never offer personal information to the caller or provide e-transfer money, gift cards or credit card numbers.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he agrees work is needed to restore trust in the province’s health-care system after the recent deaths of two patients who waited hours for care in hospital emergency departments.
Houston responded to questions from reporters following what the government called a “health summit” of leaders in the province’s health-care sector.
The summit followed more than a week of negative publicity surrounding the deaths of 37-year-old Allison Holthoff, who waited seven hours for treatment at the Cumberland Regional Health Centre in Amherst Nova Scotia and 67-year old Charlene Snow, who died a day after giving up on seeing a doctor about flu-like symptoms and jaw pain — leaving the Cape Breton Regional Hospital E-R.
