While the Rainfall Warning is ended, we’re now under a Freezing Rain Warning, and there’s also a Wind Warning for Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough Counties as well as Cape Breton Island.  Freezing rain or ice pellets are expected to become more widespread this morning as temperatures cool before changing to flurries.  The winds meanwhile, will be gusting to 90kh this morning and continue through this evening.

 

 

Nova Scotia RCMP are asking everyone to drive carefully as there is black ice reported in areas across the province this morning.

The RCMP has been attending numerous weather-related collisions all over Nova Scotia.

 

 

Nova Scotia Power says there are still about 270 power outages across the province, affecting more than 4,900 customers.

There are just some smaller scattered outages in the Pictou County area, affecting individual or smaller numbers of customers in many cases.

 

 

New Glasgow Regional Police are asking for the public’s assistance as part of an ongoing investigation into a vehicle-pedestrian collision December 12th.

It happened at approximately 5:15pm at the intersection of Temperance and MacLean Streets.

The suspect vehicle is described as a dark older model 4 door sedan.

Anyone with information on the investigation is asked to contact New Glasgow Regional Police or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers.

 

 

A mentally ill Nova Scotia man convicted of killing a well-known gay rights advocate in 2012 has been discharged from a psychiatric hospital.

The release of Andre Noel Denny was approved by the province’s Criminal Code Review Board, which did not offer reasons for its decision.

Denny was first sent for treatment at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in the Halifax area in January 2012 after he was declared not criminally responsible for an earlier assault because of his mental illness.

On the night of April 16th, 2012, Denny failed to return to the hospital after receiving an unescorted pass _ and he later attacked Raymond Taavel on Gottingen Street in downtown Halifax.

 

 

The province has announced it’s protecting a wilderness area outside of Halifax noted for its hiking, fishing and camping.

The new Island Lake Wilderness Area protects nearly four-thousand hectares of land, wetlands and water in the St. Margarets Bay area.

With the announcement, Nova Scotia has now protected about 13.45 per cent of its land area.

 

 

The Bank of Canada’s governing council says the odds of another interest rate hike have gone down.

The summary of the central bank’s deliberations ahead of its December 6th interest rate decision was released Wednesday

The central bank opted earlier this month to hold its key interest rate steady for the third time in a row.

Forecasters expect the next move will be to start cutting interest rates sometime next year.