HALIFAX: The largest American chestnut in the world stands on a backroad in Hants County, planted in 1905 and exploding skyward with the unruly enthusiasm of a firework.
Standing in the open with little...
POMQUET: An Antigonish County entrepreneur has a goal to bridge the gap in the shop local movement between local businesses and conscious consumers following the significant impacts the pandemic has had on small, local businesses.
By: Adam McNamara
HALIFAX: The union representing Nova Scotia’s paramedics – International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 727 – resumed their Code Critical program as of July 6.
The program...
BOYLSTON: Alicia Clyke, a second year social services student at the NSCC Strait Area Campus, says she is proud of her African heritge, and has learned so much through her mentors Mary Desmond and Catherine Hartling since...
ANTIGONISH: While the hot summer sun is usually public enemy number one for an ice cream cone, it’s keeping one local ice cream shop running.
Happy Cones is a solar-powered ice cream trailer created,...
By: Jackie Jardine
CARIBOU RIVER: Mary May Simon had no idea growing up as a little girl in a remote Inuit village in northern Quebec that she would someday...
ANTIGONISH: After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh annual Helping the Helpers Awareness Education Day for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is scheduled for Sept. 11 at StFX.
The day is...
STRAIT AREA: For the second time since 2003, the province will have a summer election.
Premier Iain Rankin officially dropped the writ on July 17, after meeting with Lt.-Gov. Arthur LeBlanc to dissolve the...
CREIGNISH: The lack of reliable internet service in Inverness County has a number of locals hot under the collar.
“It’s hard to believe this is the case after all these years,” said John MacNeil,...
ANTIGONISH: Concerns over the state of Old Maryvale Road have been heard by Minister of Transportation and Active Transit Lloyd Hines, but nothing is scheduled to be done about it.
During Antigonish County’s regular...