This is Nova Scotia

We get a tour of the volunteer operation at CFB Cornwallis, where almost 200 firefighters can get a warm meal - and a lot of thanks - at the end of their long shifts fighting the ongoing Long Lake wildfire. 

Students at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design held a sit-in last night, to protest the university's decision to reduce studio access this semester. We'll talk to the head of the student union to find out how it went, and why students want 24-hour access to those art spaces.

Researchers at Dalhousie University and the IWK in Halifax are trying to help parents with the overwhelming feeling of having a newborn. We hear about a new program that's aiming to increase postpartum support for new parents through text messages. 

Many of us are missing the forest right about now, as we hit peak summertime in Nova Scotia. Steve Skafte usually ventures into the woods searching for abandoned roads in the Annapolis Valley. But for now with the ban on forest activities, he's refocusing his efforts on another project: documenting shoreline access along the Bay of Fundy. 

There's a lot of nervousness in rural areas of Nova Scotia as the days go by with no significant rain in the forecast. We check in with three people who have animals and crops that need water.

Author Niko Stratis has launches her memoir "The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman," about how the music of Bruce Springsteen, The National, and REM, helped her to explore her own gender identity.

University courses - entirely taught with AI, including avatars. Sound futuristic? It's actually happening now at a divinity school in the Annapolis Valley. he CBC's Richard Cutherbertson tells us about that.

Former Potterheads are tossing their books in the wake of J.K. Rowling's comments about the trans community.

A rigid hull inflatable boat that capsized in the Halifax harbour in January struck an unlit buoy, according to documents obtained by CBC through a freedom of information request.

A new think tank report found that Nova Scotia is not one of the six provinces or territories in Canada that has achieved $10-a-day child care. Our education minister says the slower progress is due to a deal made by the prior provincial Liberal government. We ask Child Care Now Nova Scotia to weigh in.