Category: Amherst

Five people have been arrested after a woman died and a man was seriously injured in Dartmouth. Officers were called to a building on Hastings Drive on Friday evening. They say a man was found outside with serious injuries and a woman inside an apartment was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say four men and one woman were taken into custody in connection with the suspicious death. Investigators say the act is not believed to be random

A pre-primary program for four-year-old’s in Nova Scotia’s schools could be rolled out as early as this fall. Premier Stephen MacNeil says there is no need to wait to include the program in the budget and that pre-primary programs could be rolled out in as many as thirty locations in the province this fall. The program could save parents thousands of dollars in daycare expenses. Once the play-based program is fully in place it’s expected to cost the province 49.4 million-dollars a year.