The isthmus has had large dikes since 1671, when Acadian settlers arrived, and there are currently about 35 kilometres of dikes that help protect roads, farms and communities. Nova Scotia has long ...

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick's attempt to persuade a panel of judges to conclude Ottawa has responsibility for the infrastructure on the Chignecto Isthmus is a "waste and abuse" of the court's ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia and New Brunswick’s attempt to persuade a panel of judges to conclude Ottawa has responsibility for the infrastructure on the Chignecto Isthmus is a “waste and abuse ...

1:41 Who will pay for Chignecto Isthmus project? A federal lawyer says Nova Scotia and New Brunswick’s legal attempt to determine who has jurisdictional responsibility for the infrastructure on ...

Nova Scotia's highest court heard arguments this week about jurisdictional responsibility for the Chignecto Isthmus. Taryn Grant has the story. Canada could lose $93.8B from Trump’s tariffs ...

A freight train moves along the CN rail line over the Chignecto Isthmus with the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway on the left. The isthmus is at risk of severe flooding as a result of climate change.

Lawyers for the Nova Scotia government confirmed this week that they're not looking to the province's highest court to weigh in on a funding question that Premier Tim Houston wants answered about the ...

By about 3 million years ago, an isthmus had formed between North and South America. (An“isthmus” is a narrow strip of land, with water on either side, that connects two larger bodies of land.) ...

The deal stops short of allowing the United States to build its own permanent bases on the isthmus, a move that would be deeply unpopular with Panamanians and legally fraught. But it gives the US ...

Ottawa is investing $325 million to protect the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow land bridge linking Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from rising seas and storm surges. More than $100 million in goods cross ...

HALIFAX - The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links ...