PORT HAWKESBURY: Port Hawkesbury Town Council has unanimously approved a budget for 2018-2019 that will leave tax rates unchanged.
At the Town of Port Hawkesbury’s regular monthly council meeting on June 5, members voted to approve a balanced $7.8 million...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council dissolved its accessibility committee, a group mandated to make the county more accessible to those with disabilities, but a new committee is already in place to take up the challenge.
Council decided to make this...
ROCKDALE: Heavy spring rain has caused issues for some drivers on Richmond County’s Kings Road.
Last week, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (DTIR) finished up repairs to Kings Road in Rockdale. The road has suffered from multiple washouts...
ANTIGONISH: Nova Scotia’s Regional Enterprise Networks (RENs) are hoping to work together to find new ways of growing the local economy.
On May 29, RENs from throughout the province came together in Antigonish for a roundtable discussion on regional opportunities...
ARICHAT: Richmond County started the process of amending grant policies, which was laid out in last month’s municipal budget.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on May 28, council gave notice to adopt a Grants Policy and...
ARICHAT: Municipal council was asked to back a plan from a community club to develop two trails in the St. Peter’s area.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on May 28, Michele Stone and Rob Groves of...
ANTIGONISH: The county’s tax rates are staying the same.
Last week, council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish announced its budget and tax rates for the current fiscal year. The residential rate stays at $0.88 per $100 of...
D’ESCOUSSE: A local yacht club is expressing its concern with the inability of a lift bridge to open for boaters.
Lennox Passage Yacht Club commodore Teddy Poirier said he was told by Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Alana Paon that the Lennox...
HALIFAX: The provincial government and Port Hawkesbury Paper are promising no more reoccurrences of an incident in which old growth forest was cut in Guysborough County.
The Department of Natural Resources recently assessed 27 forest stands in the Lawlor Lake...
OTTAWA: Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner is investigating the minister of fisheries’ recent decision to award an arctic surf clam quota.
Jocelyne L. Brisebois, a spokesperson for the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner confirmed...