Halifax Regional Police are investigating a sudden death that happened overnight at a home in the city's south end.

According to a release, police were called to a home on Payzant Avenue&nbsp;just before 5 a.m. The address is just a couple of blocks from Dalhousie University.

The investigation is in its very early stages, the release says.

Nova Scotia Health grappling with 'unprecedented' nurse shortage

Nova Scotia Health is in "crisis mode" as it furiously tries to fill hundreds of shifts left empty by nurses across the province who are either leaving for temporary positions at public health clinics or outright quitting, a union leader says.

About 25 to 30 people who don't have family doctors show up at the Halifax Infirmary emergency room on any given day.

Halifax Infirmary ER

Jason MacLean, president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, said at least 25 nurses have quit in the last two months at the Halifax Infirmary emergency room without having another job lined up.

Child-care program will create hundreds of new jobs — but who will staff them?

The early childhood education sector in Nova Scotia was already facing a labour shortage before this week's announcement of the creation of 9,500 new child-care spaces. Colleges are ramping up to train more early childhood educators.

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Empty chairs stand on tables in an empty classroom. The province's announcement of the creation of 9,500 new child-care spaces will require hundreds of new early childhood educators, a field that already has a labour shortage.

Ontario couple to keep remote Nova Scotia lodge 'a place for dreams'

The new owners of an off-the-grid former hunting and fishing lodge outside of Kemptville, N.S., are discovering the property they now call home comes with challenges they never imagined while living in an apartment in Toronto.

Halifax police investigate sudden death

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