INVERNESS: The health authority has responded to criticism after a local doctor resigned recently.
St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish and the Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital in Inverness lost general surgeon, Dr. Jeannie MacGillivray following her resignation after multiple years...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town councillors have decided they will wait for more information before making a decision on a motion about the Destination Reeves Street Project.
Blaine MacQuarrie, Port Hawkesbury’s newest town councillor who was elected during a special election in...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A new hotel may be coming to Port Hawkesbury.
The hotel developer the town has been working with for the past several months visited Port Hawkesbury on December 17. Cushman and Wakefield is conducting a hotel feasibility study...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Properties in Port Hawkesbury are worth more in 2019 than they were in 2018, according to their annual assessment.
The town’s finance director, Erin MacEachen unveiled the assessment on January 8, which saw a 1.43 per cent increase...
HALIFAX: Mulgrave is one of seven municipalities across the province facing financial challenges that has to come up with action plans for the Department of Municipal Affairs based on their 2017 assessment results.
The request for the plan is based...
RICHMOND COUNTY: Motorists are advised of delays on the Lennox Passage Bridge in Isle Madame.
The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal said deck repairs will be taking place on the bridge tomorrow.
There will be four, 20-minute closures beginning at...
PORT HOOD: The spirit of Christmas giving extended into the New Year for Inverness County Council as the municipal unit green-lit three funding requests and wrote off inactive tax accounts late last week.
The biggest ticket item was an allocation...
PORT HOOD: The replacement of Cranton Bridge in Margaree is prompting Inverness Municipal Council to draft a letter to the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal.
Councillor Laurie Cranton, who brought the matter to council during last Thursday’s regular meeting,...
ANTIGONISH: County council is pleased with the inclusion of a local road on the province’s five-year highway improvement plan.
Transportation minister and Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie MLA Lloyd Hines released the province’s highway plan last month. One of items included in the...
PORT HOOD: Inverness County’s municipal unit adopted two new policies at last Thursday’s regular council meeting, the first meeting of council for 2019.
Although the meeting as a short one, clocking in at only 22 minutes, councillors voted to adopt...