Nova Scotia's Liberal party is promising to improve cellphone coverage and invest in major highways if the party is elected to govern on Nov. 26.

Party leader Zach Churchill made the announcement Thursday during a news conference in Halifax, saying a Liberal government would spend $60 million over four years to build 87 new cellphone towers.

"Our cellphone coverage is in a really terrible state right now," he said.

Churchill said that money would be in addition to the $66 million the Progressive C…