The Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) will elect&nbsp;a new president next week after a first round of balloting ended with no clear winner.&nbsp;

Seven candidates were competing for the position.&nbsp;In order to win, a candidate needs a simple majority of the votes, 50 per cent plus one.

In a release, the union said five candidates were&nbsp;eliminated from the slate after Wednesday's vote. The run-off vote on June 2&nbsp;will be between&nbsp;Peter Day and Ryan Lutes.

The union has more than 10,000 members and 60 per cent voted.

&nbsp;wasn't eligible to reoffer because he has already served two terms.

2 more charged with murder in Pinkneys Point house fire

Nova Scotia RCMP have charged two more people with first-degree murder in relation to a fatal housefire in Pinkneys Point, N.S., in March.

An elderly couple in Pictou Nova Scotia were solicited of over $22,000 by a scammer pretending to be their grandson, in a trend called 'grandparent scam'

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Sipekne'katik First Nation to launch river cleanup next month

On Wednesday, Sipeke'katik First Nation announced its plans to clean up and plant trees around the 72-kilometre Shubenacadie River.

Shubenacadie River

Sipekne'katik First Nation announced plans to clean up and plant trees around the 72-kilometre Shubenacadie River.

Most families of people killed in N.S. mass shooting boycott public hearings

Lawyers representing the families of more than half of the people killed in the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia say they are boycotting four days of public inquiry proceedings in response to a ruling that they will not be able to directly question two key Mounties.

Pineo McCulloch Beaton

Several families of the victims in the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting will boycott the public inquiry, protesting a decision to allow two key Mounties to avoid testifying in person over concerns of reliving trauma.

Families of N.S. shooting victims boycott public inquiry

Workplace injury in Bedford under investigation

Nova Scotia's Labour Department has issued a stop-work order after a man was injured early Wednesday morning while repairing road maintenance equipment on Bluewater Road.

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A 47-year-old man was taken to hospital Wednesday morning after being injured on the job in Bedford. He had been repairing road maintenance equipment at the time. 

RCMP officer speaks of 'regrets' that have haunted him since mass shooting

An RCMP staff sergeant says for two years he’s struggled wondering what might have happened had he caught two mentions of the suspect’s car being equipped with a push bar during the hunt for the shooter who killed 22 people.

Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, a risk manager with the RCMP, provides testimony at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S. on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Gabriel Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police cruiser, murdered 22 people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers

Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, a risk manager with the RCMP, provides testimony at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry in Truro, N.S., on Wednesday.

The Nova Scotia Teachers Union will elect a new president June 2.

Nova Scotia Teachers Union will elect a new president next week

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