ANTIGONISH: A StFX student, Lauren Seamone, is the winner of this year’s Atlantic Canada Undergraduate Poetry Competition.
Seamone, who has since graduated from StFX with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, was recognized...
STRAIT AREA: The union of over 10,000 teachers and educational specialists have voted to give the NSTU executive the authority to move into strike action, if needed.
The move, being described as “a resounding...
ANTIGONISH: Nova Scotia Health says it has fired an employee at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital who "snooped" through the personal health information of 2,690 people.
Nova Scotia Health views this as a summary offence...
GRANDE ANSE: The RCMP continue to ask for the public's assistance in locating 29-year-old Cody Duane MacDonald, who was last seen in Grande Anse, and investigators are now updating the case to note they no longer believe...
ANTIGONISH: Cassandra Desmond has been acquitted on six charges that stem from a physical altercation at Dooly’s Billiard Room in Antigonish’s downtown, two years ago.
In his written decision on Feb. 29, Nova Scotia...
INVERNESS: A volunteer treasurer has pleaded guilty to fraud and forgery after signing the president’s name of the Inverness local of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) on union cheques totaling upwards of $82,000.
MARGAREE VALLEY: Inverness County District RCMP are investigating a fatal snowmobile crash that occurred on a Margaree Valley trail, that claimed the life of a local.
On Jan. 5, at approximately 10:15 a.m., Inverness...
ESKASONI: After six days on the run, the two men wanted for an attempted murder in Eskasoni, have been arrested and are in custody.
On August 2, at approximately 5 a.m., Eskasoni RCMP responded...
BIG BRAS D’OR: Victoria County District RCMP have obtained a warrant for the arrest of a man in connection with an incident of intimate partner/family violence on August 6, in Big Bras D’Or.
Logan...
STRAIT AREA: The Backyard Astronomer says the northeastern sky will be producing 60 to 80 meteors an hour during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower this weekend.
Gary Boyle, who is a retired...