PORT HOOD: The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s (DEECD) decision to close schools temporarily due to safety issues doesn’t sit well with Inverness Municipal Council.
Council met on December 5, and newly-minted district 5 councillor John MacLellan brought...
HALIFAX: The province’s electoral boundaries commission is getting to work.
On March 27, the provincial government introduced legislation that would amend the House of Assembly Act to allow the province to designate mandatory terms of reference to guide the electoral...
HALIFAX: The fatality inquiry into the deaths of Lionel Desmond and his family will be held in Guysborough.
On January 3, 2017, the bodies of Desmond, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, his wife, 31-year-old Shanna, their 10-year-old daughter,...
ARICHAT: One of Canada’s oldest wooden churches is getting a new look.
Historic Notre Dame de l’Assomption Church in Arichat is currently being scraped and some shingles replaced in preparation for new coats of primer and paint.
Once volunteers made repairs...
PETIT DE GRAT: Doug Keefe, the head of the commission tasked with consulting Acadians, Francophones and African Nova Scotians on effective representation, said it’s clear Richmond County residents want their former electoral riding restored.
A number of people who spoke...
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...
INVERNESS: The Strait Area Transit (SAT) Co-operative is looking to hire a new full-time manager.
With the departure of former general manager Jessie MacDonald, board chair Jim Mustard said the process of finding a...
ANTIGONISH: Ahead of the new provincial budget, the government announced that it will invest approximately $244 million in new projects by the end of this fiscal year.
The funding will include a contribution of over $120 million to improve high-speed...
CAPE BRETON: Two local MLAs are looking forward to a slightly revised set of opportunities following the announcement of new critic responsibilities for the official opposition to the McNeil Liberals.
“We did a big switch-up in caucus because it’s a...
PORT HOOD: Joe O’Connor, the long-serving Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the Municipality of Inverness County, attended his last council meeting on September 9.
“We all knew that this day would come,” said Warden Betty Ann MacQuarrie who noted that...