A 22-year-old man from Shelburne County, N.S., is facing charges in relation to the Barrington Lake wildfire last spring. It was the largest wildfire in the province's history.
The RCMP has quietly closed its investigation into the wildfires that burned in the Halifax area last spring, having found no criminality was involved in its cause.
After a historic wildfire season across Canada, experts are turning their eyes to Nova Scotia as a harbinger of the growing risk facing cities on the forest's edge.
Halifax is exploring ways to better protect neighbourhoods from wildfires, months after wildfires destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents.