HALIFAX: The province is available to provide guidance to a local town after council withdrew a dissolution request.
On March 8, Mulgrave Town Council voted to withdraw its application to dissolve town status and amalgamate with the Municipality of the...
PORT HASTINGS: The superintendent of schools for the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is striking an optimistic tone about the province’s plan to purchase four of the board’s public-private-partnership (P3) buildings, including an Inverness County school that the board...
PORT HOOD: The impact of Mother Nature’s bad side was discussed during Inverness Municipal Council’s monthly meeting on Monday.
“People are concerned with coastal erosion,” said Warden Betty Anne MacQuarrie, who serves as the council person for Mabou and Port...
STRAIT AREA: A letter from the Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG) seeking support in lobbying the provincial government to lift its ban on hydraulic fracturing came before two local municipal councils.
Inverness County’s stance on fracking is being...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A bid by a local transit co-operative to expand its charter services has been rejected.
Last week, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (NSUARB) denied a request by Strait Area Transit (SAT) to provide charter service for...
MULGRAVE: Town council is once again looking to round out its numbers.
Last week, Mulgrave Town Council set aside June 3 as the date for a by-election to fill the lone empty seat on council.
“We’ll start advertising in the next...
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...
HALIFAX: The province’s recently released plan for cannabis sales is already drawing criticism.
On January 30, Mark Furey, Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Bret Mitchell, president and CEO of the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC), officially announced the...
PORT HOOD: Rumours still circulate
about the development of a federally and provincially funded airport somewhere
near the community of Inverness, and Inverness Municipal Council would like the
air cleared as to what’s actually going on.
The...
GUYSBOROUGH: The warden says 2018 could be a big year for the area.
Following December’s regular monthly meeting, Guysborough Warden Vernon Pitts reflected on the last 12 months and looked forward to the next 12.
Pitts listed highlights of the last...