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HALIFAX — A musician in a local heavy metal band and a six-year-old girl who loved dressing up like a princess have been identified as two of the victims who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Department of Public Works said Thursday it had repaired nearly 500 sections of damaged roads and 60 road shoulders since a series of thunderstorms last weekend caused severe flooding across the province.

Halifax officials said Wednesday the unrelenting storm that lashed the city and surrounding regions with as much as 250 millimetres of rain on the weekend was a one-in-a-thousand-years weather event.

HALIFAX — As torrential floodwaters dragged volunteer firefighter Logan Hope downstream, he held a woman's head over the surface and focused on a single goal.

HALIFAX — The RCMP have called off a search for a 31-year-old man who they believe has been swept out to sea after a tubing mishap on a Nova Scotia river.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP reminded people on Tuesday to use extreme caution on the province's waterways, as police continued their search for a man who went missing while tubing down a river about 80 kilometres west of Halifax.

HALIFAX — RCMP in Nova Scotia said Monday they had found the body of a missing man and what they believe are remains of a second person swept away in massive flooding that hit the province on the weekend.

HALIFAX — A flooded Nova Scotia field was the focus of an intense weekend search for four people, including two children, lost after rushing waters caused by torrential rains swamped the vehicles they were travelling in. RCMP Cpl.

HALIFAX — Two children were among four people reported missing Saturday after a long procession of intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Nova Scotia, washing away roads and bridges amid widespread flooding.

HALIFAX — Heavy rain is expected throughout the weekend in much of Nova Scotia, with Environment Canada issuing a rainfall warning for the province's Atlantic coast. An evacuation order has been issued for the St.