GUYSBOROUGH: Following last month’s release of the province’s five year highway improvement plan, the transportation minister said the plan lets residents know where and when they can expect road work in their areas.
Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines,...
GUYSBOROUGH: Local trailblazers recently got some help from the province.
On December 22, Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie MLA Lloyd Hines announced $50,000 in funding for the Guysborough County Trails Association. Hines said the funding was part of the government’s commitment of $1...
HALIFAX: The province’s head medical examiner wants some answers.
On December 28, Nova Scotia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Matt Bowes announced his recommendation of an inquiry into the deaths of Lionel Desmond and members of Desmond’s family.
On January 6, 2017,...
MARBLE MOUNTAIN: Being unable to use a phone during power outages has one local woman calling on Canada’s largest telecommunications company to provide answers, along with improved service.
“They said it was a power surge that knocked out the battery...
ANTIGONISH: News report list Wafic Said, Victor Dahdaleh, Wilbur Ross, and David Koch as donors to StFX University’s Mulroney Institute of Government and Xaverian Commons, a multi-million dollar project on the Antigonish school’s campus for which the former Canadian...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Superintendent Ford Rice says the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is taking recent knife-related incidents at two local schools very seriously.
The first incident on October 10 involved a folding utility knife and an alleged threat to a...
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...
ANTIGONISH: Former Antigonish Town councillor John Robert MacIsaac of Antigonish faced charges of accessing child pornography and possessing child pornography. MacIsaac’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty on both charges on MacIsaac’s behalf during a hearing in Antigonish...
ARICHAT: Richmond County’s incoming Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Louis Digout confirmed that two municipal staff positions were eliminated as the result of an organizational review of the municipality’s operations that got underway last past spring.
Digout said the municipality had...
HALIFAX: The Honourable Arthur Joseph LeBlanc took the oath of office, on June 28 in Halifax as Nova Scotia’s 33rd lieutenant-governor since Confederation.
Premier Stephen McNeil noted that Lt.-Gov. LeBlanc has made numerous contributions to the Acadian community and has...