A Halifax doctor had some tough questions for the Halifax Regional School Board on Wednesday night, telling board members he was concerned about how HRSB handled the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic in area schools.

Transportation and access to the province are only a few issues to be addressed at a three-day Nova Scotia tourism conference that begins Sunday in Halifax.

The rocky shores and rolling hills of the Cabot Trail now have a rock ’n’ roll song to call their own.

Anyone lucky enough to have scored tickets to Serena Ryder’s two sold-out shows in Halifax this weekend can expect to witness a little bit of magic.

Halifax RCMP have issued an Internet fraud warning to anyone buying and selling items on websites.

WASHINGTON - The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White House grounds, a spokeswoman for the program's network said Thursday.

LONDON - Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington said.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil - Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative.

HAVANA, Cuba - Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.