The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

As Iran and Israel enter a ceasefire on June 24, the future of the conflict and U.S. involvement remains on unsteady ground, following Iran's retaliatory strike on an overseas U.S. military base one ...

A prominent adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has already called for the closure of the Strait. A ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's premier says he’s disappointed the province's Court of Appeal has declined to say which level of government has responsibility for the land bridge to New Brunswick.

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.

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, and the true sun’s daily path across the sky is higher. The opposite is ...

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 ...

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.) ...

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 ...

The isthmus is also a transportation corridor including the Trans Canada Highway and the Canadian National Railway, connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. An estimated $100 million of goods and ...