HALFWAY COVE: A municipal councillor who served for three decades was killed in an ATV accident last weekend.
At 7:58 p.m. on January 26, Canso RCMP responded to a fatal ATV crash off Highway 16 in Halfway Cove.
Preliminary investigation revealed the...
ANTIGONISH: An Antigonish women who faces several charges including attempted murder and assault with a weapon following an incident on Cloverville Road is scheduled to return to court on May 4.
Raylene Dewan, appeared...
ANTIGONISH: The mayor for the Town of Antigonish says council didn’t take its decision lightly in regards to a one cent increase to tax rates, especially after acknowledging the difficult year both residents and businesses have had...
ARICHAT: Richmond County and the Town of Port
Hawkesbury have officially entered into an agreement over fire protection
services.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council on June 20 in Arichat, Deputy Warden Alvin Martell...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO: Cape Breton-Canso Member of Parliament
Mike Kelloway was selected to be a member of the Standing Committee on Health
last week.
On January 29, Kelloway issued a press release
announcing his appointment, then the next...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council approved a balanced budget for 2018-2019.
During a special meeting on April 27, councillors voted in favour of the $14,032,000 budget which maintains residential taxes at 80 cents per $100 of assessment, while the commercial rate...
PORT HASTINGS: Inverness MLA Allan MacMaster is happy to hear the towers Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) plans to build across the Strait of Canso won’t be quite as hard on the eyes as their predecessors.
“They told me when...
HALIFAX: The chief operating officer with a Point Tupper-based green hydrogen and green ammonia project says recent amendments to the Electricity Act will allow for greater access to renewable energy across the province.
Bear...
ANTIGONISH: St. Francis Xavier University announced Dr.
Daniel Belliveau has been appointed the Dean of Science at St. Francis Xavier
University, effective January 1, 2020.
Dr. Belliveau comes to the university from his current
position as Director,...
ANTIGONISH: A pair of tips from south of the border two-years-ago, one of those coming from the social media and social networking service Facebook, assisted RCMP in Nova Scotia arrest an Antigonish man on child pornography related...