A Meteghan, N.S., man is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 1 early Friday.

According to an RCMP news release, emergency services responded to a report of a crash at 12:33 a.m. in Meteghan.

The release&nbsp;said a car travelling east left the road and ended up in a ditch.

A 43-year-old man, the lone occupant&nbsp;of the vehicle,&nbsp;was ejected upon impact and pronounced dead at the scene, the release says.

Residents, parents speak out against new temporary shelters in Lower Sackville

Residents and parents weighed in on new temporary shelters coming to Lower Sackville's Beacon House. Most say the location near a school and recreation area doesn't make sense.

Pallet shelter pushback in Lower Sackville

A woman in a black blouse stands with her back to the camera, gesturing with her left arm outstretched. 

A woman speaks during the public meeting about the Beacon House Shelter expansion to add Pallet units in Lower Sackville on Thursday evening. Others have their hands raised to ask questions.

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Residents and parents weighed in on new temporary shelters coming to Beacon House. Most say the location near a school and a recreation area doesn't make sense. Haley Ryan has the story.

Yarmouth was promised a new emergency department. It still doesn't have one 4 years later

Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Zach Churchill says he’s concerned the provincial government lacks the urgency required to replace the emergency department at Yarmouth Regional Hospital.

A sign for a hospital in the foreground, with the hospital in the background.

Doctors who work at Yarmouth Regional Hositapl say the emergency department has outlived its usefulness and needs to be replaced.

Yarmouth Regional Hospital

A new emergency department for Yarmouth Regional Hospital was promised four years ago, but design and analysis work for the replacement project only wrapped up a few months ago. There's no timeline yet for construction.

Province chips in to pay continuing care assistants during on-the-job training at Shannex homes

A $3.6-million pilot project to test drive a faster way to train continuing care assistants will allow one of the province's largest nursing home operators to add 48 of them to its payroll.

Four women sit in front of microphones at a news conference.

Labour Minister Jill Balser, second from left, attends a news conference on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. She said her department would be subsidizing part of the salary paid to trainees.

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Labour Minister Jill Balser, second from left, attends a news conference Thursday where she said her department would subsidize part of the salary paid to trainees.

Judge rules murder trial for Adam Drake will proceed despite delays

New study examines origins of toxic bacteria that killed 2 dogs at Halifax-area lake

Researchers investigating what led to the deadly poisoning of two dogs at a Halifax-area lake three years ago believe mats of bacteria growing on the bed of a tributary were likely washed downstream and became highly toxic before they were eaten by the canines on the shore.

A woman in a blue shirt is shown by a microscope.

Lindsay Johnston, a PhD student at Dalhousie University's faculty of civil and resource engineering, is shown on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.

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A Meteghan man has died in a single-vehicle crash.

Man, 43, dies in single-vehicle crash in Digby County

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