Leslie Obol believed she could safely push out her fourth baby in a water birth at the IWK hospital in Halifax. Her birth plan was approved, and with support from a midwife, a doula, a nurse and her husband, she delivered Alioune - in water.

When Judie Edgar developed breast cancer in 2003, she was inspired by gardens for survivors in Ontario. After she and her husband moved back home to Nova Scotia, she was determined to bring a place of comfort, hope and strength to the province.

Ravin Murugan is one of countless people in Canada who are powerless to help overseas family members stricken with COVID-19.

Fifty-three people died at the Northwood care home in Halifax during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. The deaths exposed the weaknesses in Nova Scotia's long term-care system. A year later, COVID-19 is back, but the home says it's ready.

Housing advocates say family homelessness is a hidden problem that has parents and children split up and sleeping in cars or couch-surfing like Caitlyn Lethbridge and Myles Benn. That's why Adsum for Women and Children has a program aimed at steering Halifax-area families and children away from shelters and into homes.

A soup kitchen that started as a pilot project a year and a half ago in Lower Sackville, N.S., has grown. Freedom Kitchen has moved out of a food truck into its building, and one of its grateful regulars helped to build it.

Good Robot Brewing needed more than a good fence to become a good neighbour to the mosque next door. Things soured during Ramadan, the holy time for Muslims, in 2016. But five years later, the frayed relationship has been mended, and the brewery has found a new purpose.