ARICHAT: Residents in the St. George’s Channel area aired concerns about inaccurate road name descriptions on a globally-used digital mapping system during a recent meeting of Richmond Municipal Council.
Residents Doug Begg and Ross Wagg pointed out that Google Maps...
PORT HASTINGS: With the first day of spring less than two weeks away, officials at the Strait regional school board (SRSB) are cautiously optimistic that the 8.5 school days lost to region-wide weather-related closures will not have a major...
PORT HASTINGS: The Strait regional school board (SRSB) is days away from relocating its central office to one of the board’s high schools.
After two decades at its current home, a refurbished school building in Port Hastings, the board will...
PORT HASTINGS: The committee reviewing the future of three Inverness County schools for the Strait regional school board (SRSB) will get an extra 30 days to complete their work this spring.
Originally slated to wrap up their review of Mabou’s...
PORT HASTINGS: Inverness Council is looking for more say in decisions that could result in the loss of infrastructure.
“As part of our county’s value proposition in making our communities attractive places to stay in or move to, I’d like...
PORT HASTINGS: For the second consecutive year, the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is projecting a region-wide decline of 227 students, even though last year’s projection was nearly seven times higher than the drop that actually resulted for the...
ANTIGONISH: The province’s municipal affairs department is looking into best practices for a local arena commission.
Following a regular monthly meeting of council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, Warden Russell Boucher said one of the topics at...
ANTIGONISH: It looks like an annual hockey tradition at a local university is back on.
On February 19, the StFX Student Union announced the annual BurMac Cup hockey game is set to return to the Keating Millennium Centre on March...
RIVER BOURGEOIS: People got the chance to have their say about highway twinning and tolls.
On February 22, the Tara Lynne Community Centre in River Bourgeois hosted a public consultation regarding the province’s twinning feasibility study.
Attendees shared a number of...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre was the latest stop, on February 23, for the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal’s (DTIR) public consultations asking the public if they support using tolls to accelerate the timeline for highway...