A 71-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle crash in Dartmouth on Tuesday.

Halifax Regional Police responded to the incident near Everette and Pleasant streets around 9:10 a.m.

Police say the vehicle left the road&nbsp;and hit a cement barrier, causing the vehicle to flip over.

The driver was dead when officers arrived.

The collision investigation unit is&nbsp;in the area and the investigation is ongoing.

Benefits of AstraZeneca outweigh risk, says N.S. chief medical officer of health

As Canada changes its recommendations on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the province's chief medical officer of health reassures those who have received it in Nova Scotia.

The memo sent out from MLB and the players' association strongly encourages all players and staff to get vaccinated when they're eligible in order to relax protocols.

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Nova Scotia will continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for those age 60 to 64.

Judge in case of N.S. gunman's spouse denies defence's request for private meeting

The case of the common-law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people last April in rural Nova Scotia will return to court May 5 after it was determined the defence's request for a private meeting with the judge and Crown before a plea wasn't appropriate.

The burned out remains of Gabriel Wortman's home on Portapique Beach Road, N.S., taken May 13, 2020. 

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The burned out remains of the gunman's home on Portapique Beach Road, N.S., are seen in May 2020. 

Spawning-age mackerel at record lows in Atlantic Canada

Another grim picture of mackerel, a fish in or near the critical zone for a decade, has been released. The 2015 class that supported the commercial fishery is now almost all gone.

A picture taken on February 13, 2014 in Bordeaux, western France, shows mackerels at a fish shop. High tides and winter storms not only ravaged the coast and exhausted the birds, they also affected fishermen forced to remain at quay.

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DFO's latest assessment of Atlantic Canada's mackerel population paints a grim picture.

Halifax man charged with firearm, drug offences related to incident caught on video

Police arrested three men Friday in Halifax, and seized crack cocaine and a loaded handgun. A fourth man fled the scene, which led to the incident caught on video. As of Monday afternoon, the man in the video had not been located.

HRP car photographed by Craig Paisley, June 2018.

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Halifax Regional Police say they are looking for information about the incident and the video that was captured. Anyone with information is urged to come forward.

N.S. Public Health no longer issuing potential exposures

In a news release Wednesday, the province said it no longer has the "necessary information" to report exposure sites accurately.

Colourized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Most Nova Scotians who are positive for COVID-19 will identify and contact their close contacts, Public Health said.

Halifax Regional Police say the vehicle left the road and hit a cement barrier, causing the vehicle to flip over. 

Man, 71, dead following single-vehicle crash in Dartmouth

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