Someone in a beat-up Volkswagen Golf opened fire on an empty car in Onslow, N.S., over the weekend, police said Monday.

Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Colchester District RCMP were called when someone in a moving car shot a parked car on Elm Street. No one was in the parked car.

Police say the drive-by shooter was in an old, black Golf with a damaged windshield and a rear window covered in plastic and held together by red tape.&nbsp;

RCMP said anyone with information about the shooting should contact the RCMP's Bible Hill detachment at 902-893-6820, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or 

'Find them all and just burn them': The fight against illegal guns in N.S.

In 2017 and 2018 police across the province seized more than 2,000 guns. Some are turned into police, but many are also seized from criminals arrested for crimes ranging from robbery to weapons offences.

The federal government announced a $11.9 million dollar investment in addressing crime related to guns and gangs.

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More than 250 handguns were seized by police in Nova Scotia in 2017 and 2018, according to data from the RCMP.

A fish tag that knows it's been eaten is helping endangered Atlantic salmon

New tracking devices inserted into Atlantic salmon reveal that up to 48 per cent of the critically endangered fish are being eaten while leaving Nova Scotia's Stewiacke River on their ocean migration.

Predation tag that knows when its been eaten because a polymer coating disolves in the stomach of a predator.

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This predation tag knows when it has been eaten because a polymer coating dissolves in the stomach of a predator.

DND ordered to pay $25K for 'pure and simple racial prejudice'

A federal panel has awarded a black apprentice mechanic $25,000 in damages under the Canadian Human Rights Act after it concluded that his bosses racially discriminated against him when they terminated his apprenticeship at CFB Halifax.

At a hearing of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board earlier this year, the panel heard testimony that co-workers of Christian Reeves were forced to make up stories about him to get him in trouble.

Beat-up VW Golf sought after empty car shot up in rural Nova Scotia

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