Halifax is on its way to having a population of half a million people in less than five years. Currently, 459,000 people call the municipality home. It's been growing at about two per cent a year ...

2:02 Infrastructure improvements in HRM needed to keep up with growing population The Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) saw a 4.4 per cent growth in population in 2022, bringing the city’s total ...

Halifax has a new five-year economic strategy after regional council approved the plan on Tuesday. It includes a population target of 525,000, an increase from a population of 460,000 last July. The ...

As the nights grow colder, street outreach worker Lucas Goltz tries to think of creative ways to help the growing number of people living in tents in downtown Halifax stay warm. "We have to resort to ...

Halifax will need to build an additional 38,000 housing units over the next five years to address the housing shortage and account for a population boom, according to a new report. While the city's ...

OTTAWA — New census data shows the population of the metropolitan area of Halifax fell below the national growth rate over the last five years. Statistics Canada released the first batch of numbers ...

Halifax's homeless population has more than doubled over the last four years, according to a new report, with nearly half of respondents experiencing homelessness for the first time in the last two ...

Since 2015 Halifax’s population has continued to grow as the city has welcomed more than 20,000 new people and counting. 2018 saw a 2.0 per cent increase in the population, the largest increase in ...