A PEI woman has died after a crash on Highway 104 near Amherst on Monday afternoon. The head-on collision between an SUV and pickup truck happened just before 12:30pm. The driver and sole occupant of the SUV, a 61-year-old PEI woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck, a 59-year-old Stellarton woman, suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital by EHS. A collision reconstructionist attended the scene and the investigation is ongoing.
R-C-M-P say a 71-year-old man has died in a single-vehicle crash in Cumberland County. Cumberland District R-C-M-P and fire services responded to the crash on Highway 2, where a pickup left the road and hit a utility pole. The truck was found overturned in a ditch. The driver and sole-occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.
Halifax Regional Police have released the name of a 16-year-old boy whose death has been deemed a homicide. Police say Ahmad Maher Al Marrach was found badly injured in a parking lot next to the Halifax Shopping Centre on Monday and died later in hospital. About 20 minutes after the victim was found, two youths were arrested aboard a Halifax Transit bus, but police say they were released from custody without charges. Police have yet to say how the victim died, though the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service conducted an autopsy and confirmed the manner of death to be homicide.
Nova Scotia’s private electric utility says the newest estimate for what has become known as a scaled-down version of the Atlantic Loop electrical grid project is now about 700-million dollars. Nova Scotia Power C-E-O Peter Gregg told a legislature committee yesterday that talks continue on how to finance a power line that would run parallel to an existing connection between Onslow, Nova Scotia, and Salisbury, New Brunswick. The line would carry power from future renewable energy projects between the two provinces. He says the project’s cost could double to 1.4-billion dollars if the power line eventually runs farther west to Point Lepreau.