A 25-year-old woman is facing a laundry list of charges after a hit and run in Dartmouth that sent a man to hospital.
Police say it happened Saturday morning at the intersection of Yorkshire Avenue Extension and Windmill Road after the driver sped away from police when they tried a traffic stop.
A 58-year-old man was seriously injured.
The vehicle was seen heading toward the MacKay Bridge
The woman was arrested Monday facing offences that include breach of release order, breach of probation order, flight from peace officer, failure to stop after an accident resulting in bodily harm.
She was scheduled for court, Tuesday.
The Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) has taken over the investigation of the hit and run who say the vehicle was stolen.
The province’s police watchdog is investigating a hit and run in Dartmouth that left one man with serious injuries.
Halifax police say it was around 10:30 a.m., Sunday, when officers saw a pickup truck with no license plate in a parking lot off Yorkshire Avenue Extension.
The truck sped away when police tried to approach it. The truck continued on until it hit another vehicle at an intersection at Windmill Road, sending the driver who was a 58-year-old man, to hospital with serious injuries.
The truck was last seen heading toward the MacKay Bridge. It is described as a newer black model Ford F-150 with a tonneau cover.
The pedestrian bridge over a section of Highway 111 in Dartmouth has been closed for one month and there is no timeline on when it reopen.
The walkway shut down after a collision on the weekend of August 22, damaging the steel structure to the stairway.
It’s been out of commission ever since and according to Councillor Tony Mancini, several community members have asked about when it will reopen.
Comments on Mancini’s Facebook show residents who say the bridge was well used.
In an email to Acadia News, Public Works says the department has hired a consulting engineer to assess the structure to determine options and procedures.
“The structure will remain closed until that work takes place,” says Public Works.
A 22-year-old woman is facing a manslaughter charge after a man was found dead at a Dartmouth tent site on Boxing Day in 2024.
Police say the autopsy determined the death to be a homicide.
It was December 22 when police responded to Geary Street for a report that man had been assaulted by a woman. When paramedics responded, he declined to be treated.
Four days later on December 26, police responded to the Geary Street area where the same man was found dead in a tent.
He was identified as 56-yaer-old Jeffrey Alexander Emmerson.
Halifax is taking a closer look at whether a new ferry is needed to support growing demand between Dartmouth and Halifax.
The municipality says the review will examine whether a new passenger ferry should join the Alderney and Woodside routes as the city’s fleet faces increasing pressure.
Regional Council approved a motion from Mayor Andy Fillmore directing the Chief Administrative Officer to return with options as part of an upcoming operational review of ferry services.
The report will outline the cost of a new vessel and the berthing, staffing and maintenance requirements needed to support it.
Fillmore said Halifax’s conventional ferry fleet has not expanded since 2018, even as the municipality’s population has grown by nearly 100,000.
Ferry ridership reached 1.8 million boardings in 2025 and 2026, a three per cent increase from the previous year despite an overall decline in Halifax Transit ridership.
He said recent maintenance on the Vincent Coleman showed how limited the system’s flexibility has become.
Required work reduced Alderney service from every 15 minutes to every 30 minutes, and Halifax Transit reported 3,093 cancelled trips between January and March, representing 21 per cent of scheduled service.
“This year showed us what happens when there isn’t enough flexibility in the fleet,” Fillmore said.
“We shouldn’t wait for the next service disruption to start planning for what comes next.”
All five ferries are approaching mandatory mid‑life overhauls beginning in 2029, with the work estimated at $3 million per vessel.
Fillmore said the motion does not authorize the purchase of a new ferry.
Instead, he said it will give councillors a full picture of the costs and requirements so they can weigh the potential investment during the 2027 and 2028 budget process.
“A growing municipality cannot meet tomorrow’s needs with yesterday’s capacity,” he said.
“Good infrastructure requires planning ahead.”
Council previously directed staff in July 2026 to bring forward options to incorporate recapitalization costs for the existing ferry system into future budget deliberations.
Seventeen people, including two famillies, have been displaced after a fire caused significant damage to three buildings on Gaston Road in Dartmouth.
Halifax Fire and Emergency tells Acadia News they got the call around 6 p.m., Monday. Once on scene they had to call for more resources.
“We had approximately 35 firefighters, ten heavy units, three light apparatus drawn from seven stations,” says Acting Deputy Chief Amos Robia.
One crew member had minor injuries.
Around 8 p.m., the Halifax Professional Fire Fighters union showed flames had burned the siding off one of the buildings, and the flames were on the roof of another.
As of Tuesday morning, the fire was out, and at least one firefighter was still on the scene, working on the destroyed parts of the building.
The roofs have partly collapsed in all three of the buildings, and the siding can be seen melting off the charred side of another building.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Much of the siding has burned and melted away from this apartment after a fire on Gaston Road in Dartmouth. PHOTO: Jacob Moore
Meanwhile, a fan of the Namaste Indian Grocery store visited Tuesday morning.
The store is at the front of one of the buildings that was heavily damaged.
William Chappell says he lives just up the street and visits several times a week.
“The food, the fruit, the fish—everything’s good at the store. And the people are nice,” says Chappell.
He says their incense and their rice are cheap and good quality, but the samosas are a highlight because of their massive size.
“It doesn’t even cost you five dollars,” he says.
“And the thing’s huge, as big as a ball cap.”
He says while the store is gone, his wife will not like that he has to go further on his bicycle to get something, and at 61 years old, “the more time I have to do other things that I want to do, the better,” he says.
“It’s got to come back. It’s just perfect.”
This angle shows how the fire damaged the building behind the one with the Namaste Indian Grocery store. PHOTO: Jacob Moore/Acadia Broadcasting
