ANTIGONISH: Fresh ideas have the power
to change the way we view the world and can lead to discoveries that will help
solve some of our biggest challenges.
Sean Fraser, Member of Parliament for
Central Nova, highlighted...
STRAIT AREA: Heavy rains and winds left a large of number of residents without power on Monday.
“As of 7 a.m. on October 11, there had been just over 147,000 outages and almost 97,500 customers restored,” stated Beverley Ware, senior...
MULGRAVE: Town council is trying to gauge interest in filling the final council seat.
Mulgrave Mayor Ralph Hadley said council told the Department of Municipal Affairs that a by-election will prove too costly for taxpayers. He also pointed to the...
INVERNESS: Inverness Municipal Council will not be lobbying the province to lift its ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Council was approached on January 24 by Guysborough Warden Vernon Pitts who requested Inverness County stand with his municipal unit in lobbying...
MULGRAVE: An MLA says the province needs to review the funding model for public libraries.
During a recent question period in the Nova Scotia Legislature, MLA Pat Dunn, asked Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage, Leo Glavine, if the government...
ARICHAT: Richmond County will remain part of the Cape Breton
Regional Enterprise Network (CBREN) for the time being.
On March 9 during Richmond Municipal Council’s committee-of-the-whole
meeting in Arichat, district 4 councillor Gilbert Boucher made a...
PORT HAWKESBURY: It has been a busy year for Strait Area Transit (SAT).
SAT office manager Jessie MacDonald says the community-based transit system has seen a significant increase in ridership over the past year, and is working on a proposal...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council signed off on over $27,000 worth of tax-write offs at its monthly meeting last week, and one of those allowances didn’t sit very well with at least one member of the municipal unit.
A write-off...
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...
OTTAWA: The federal
government has tabled new legislation that would deter owners from leaving
vessels unattended in Canadian waters for extended periods of time.
Last week, the
Government of Canada introduced the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels...