LOUISDALE: Affordable housing and the continued need for a literacy outreach worker dominated the first of two municipal candidates’ forums designed to discuss local seniors’ issues.
Ten of the 14 people who put their names forward for Richmond Municipal Council’s...
WHYCOCOMAGH: The electronic speed-monitoring signs that greet motorists travelling along Trans-Canada Highway 105 through this Inverness County community could soon appear in other parts of the municipality.
During this month’s regular monthly meeting of Inverness Municipal Council, held at Whycocomagh’s...
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...
PORT HOOD: With rumours circulating that Cabot Golf is looking to open a third course in the area of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park, members of Inverness Municipal Council mulled over what position they ought to adopt if they...
PORT HASTINGS: As local students headed back to school this week, the Strait regional school board (SRSB) continues to make adjustments to accommodate the work-to-rule job action launched by members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) in early...
ARICHAT: The municipality is considering another waste disposal option.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on September 25 in Arichat, Warden Brian Marchand said he’s received calls asking if the municipality would be willing to do a...
MIDDLE RIVER: At 8:42 p.m. on August 11, Victoria County RCMP received a call from two hikers indicating they had become lost on the Gairloch Mountain in Middle River.
One hiker was a 26-year-old man, and the other was a...
INVERNESS COUNTY: Local MLA Allan MacMaster is pleased to see that work on Inverness County Roads is coming.
“I want to make sure we get our fair share,” MacMaster told The Reporter last week, just days after issuing a press...
ARICHAT: The municipality has awarded a tender to conduct improvements to Internet and cell phone services in parts of Richmond County.
During a special meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on August 1 in Arichat, council approved a motion to confirm...
HALIFAX: A recent Supreme Court ruling
on the beneficiary of a life insurance policy has shed some light on the events
of a tragic 2017 triple murder suicide.
Cpl. Lionel Desmond, a former rifleman
with the 2nd...