The Coast is a free weekly newspaper in Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada. The paper distributes 24,000 copies per week throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality. The paper is owned by Coast Publishing Limited.

Founded in 1993 The Coast has a generally left wing editorial policy. It focuses on local issues, especially "people working for change" within the community.

The Coast is available in Bedford and Lower Sackville, but 75 per cent of its readership lives in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth.

The paper claims a readership of 61,263. According to a January 2007 Corporate Research Associates metro quarterly survey, 55 per cent of The Coast's readers are between 18 and 34 years of age (34.701 readers).

Coast is a BBC documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. A second series started on 26 October 2006 and a third in spring 2007. It covers various subjects relating to both the natural and social history of the British coastline and also more recently that of Ireland. The series is a collaboration between the Open University and the BBC.

The presenters, and their fields of interest, are:

• Nicholas Crane (main presenter, series 1) — geography
• Alice Roberts — anthropology and geology
• Neil Oliver (main presenter, series 2 and 3) — archaeology and social history
• Mark Horton — marine archaeology
• Miranda Krestovnikoff — zoology

In addition, Dick Strawbridge and Hermione Cockburn presented one item each in the second and third series.

All but one of the episodes in the first series ended with Nicholas Crane stating that in the British Isles, "Remember, you are never more than 72 miles from the sea!"

Series 1 started at the white cliffs of Dover and progressed in a clockwise fashion around the coast of Great Britain (with a side trip to Northern Ireland). Series 2 again started at Dover but subsequent episodes have not followed series 1 in circumnavigating the UK coast, instead featuring various locations, including sections of the coast of the Republic of Ireland.

All three series have been released on Region 2 DVD by Contender Home Entertainment. Series 1 has been packaged in a box set with A Picture of Britain, and also in a box set with Series 2.

Extracts from the programme are often used as filler items on BBC Two, for example following a fifty-minute documentary programme such as The Natural World or Horizon, to allow the next full programme to begin on the hour. As the Coast programmes are made in high-definition, they are also used in this way on BBC HD.

All but one of the episodes in the first series ended with Nicholas Crane stating that in the British Isles, "Remember, you are never more than 72 miles from the sea!". This closing narration was part of a promotion for the tie-in BBC-sponsored walks and accompanying booklet, and was removed from many of the repeat showings.

Series 1 & 2 have been released on Region 2 DVD by Contender Home Entertainment. Series 1 has also been packaged in a box set with "Picture of Britain, A" (2005) (mini).

Series 1 started at the white cliffs of Dover and progressed in a clockwise fashion around the coast of the Great Britain (with a side trip to Northern Ireland). Series 2 again started at Dover but subsequent episodes have not followed series 1 in circumnavigating the UK coast, instead choosing seemingly random areas for each episode.