HALIFAX: The NDP say improvements to Highway 104 are
necessary and will increase safety along that section of the provincial highway
network but using the public private partnership (P3) model is the wrong
decision.
“We have seen...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Officials in the Town of Port
Hawkesbury have held the line on municipal taxes.
Council unanimously approved their 2019-20 municipal
operating and capital budget during a special public meeting late last month.
PORT HAWKESBURY: A resident of the town was arrested and charged after police found drugs in a residence last week.
On July 18, members of the Inverness/Richmond
Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU) searched a home in Port
Hawkesbury. As...
INVERNESS COUNTY: The RCMP is trying to find the person who forced a teenager from Inverness County to share nude pictures on the Internet.
A
press release from Nova Scotia RCMP said on July 1,...
ARICHAT: Richmond County and the Town of Port
Hawkesbury have officially entered into an agreement over fire protection
services.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council on June 20 in Arichat, Deputy Warden Alvin Martell...
JANVRIN’S ISLAND: Residents in this part of Isle Madame
were disappointed to learn there is no more money this year to conduct
improvements to their roads and bridges.
On June 17, the Janvrin’s Island Community Center
hosted...
CALGARY, A.B.: Pieridae Energy
Ltd., the company behind the proposed Goldboro LNG facility, has announced
they plan to acquire Shell Canada Energy’s midstream and upstream assets
in the southern Alberta Foothills.
The purchase agreement secures
the supply needed...
ANTIGONISH: Town staff got a bit of a boost this week.
Following an in-camera session during a special meeting
on June 24, Antigonish Town Council updated its staff benefits package and
benefits plan.
ANTIGONISH: Who knows better how to attract doctors to
a community than local physicians and community members? That’s the approach
doctors at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish are taking to remedy
their physician recruitment and retention challenge.
ANTIGONISH: The driver of an ATV died last week after he lost control and was ejected from the vehicle.
At 12:45 p.m. Friday, Antigonish RCMP responded to a
motor vehicle collision at the roundabout on...