PORT HAWKESBURY: In the midst of a controversy over the
firing of Richmond County’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and the
resignation of the warden, the Strait Area Chamber of Commerce has weighed in.
A letter dated...
ANTIGONISH: Councillors in the Municipality of the
County of Antigonish have once again held the line on their municipal taxes.
Council unanimously approved their 2019-20 Municipal
Operating and Capital Budget during its regular municipal council meeting...
ANTIGONISH COUNTY: During the asset management committee report of the municipality’s regular monthly council meeting on Oct. 11, which was submitted to council by Bill MacFarlane, he highlighted a recommendation that municipal council approve putting forward D...
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia’s Electoral Boundaries Commission
is recommending the return of the riding of Richmond and for the Town of Port
Hawkesbury to rejoin the riding of Inverness.
On Monday, the independent commission released its
final report...
HALIFAX: The executive committee of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has voted to suspend the former chief of We’koqma’q First Nation.
Morley Googoo was first elected Regional Chief for Nova
Scotia-Newfoundland in 2011 and...
HALIFAX: Officials in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) have started the process to redesign the formula to fund public education.
Education minister Zach Churchill confirmed the news during a media scrum at Province House in Halifax...
ARICHAT: Richmond County added its voice to those opposing the provincial Non-Resident Property Tax and Non-Resident Deed Transfer Tax.
Councillors voted to send a letter, written by Warden Amanda Mombourquette, to Premier Tim Houston...
INVERNESS: Local tourism operators were approved for federal funding recently under a tourism program.
In a press release issued on Sept. 6, Cape Breton-Canso Mike Kelloway announced funding of $1,326,420 for 13 projects through...
ARICHAT: A municipal councillor who was suspended for breaching the code of conduct is taking issue with the sanctions imposed by council.
During the committee of the whole session on May 9, District 2...
MONASTERY: Addressing information that’s been circulating about Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Ernie Currie shared a letter to his personal Facebook page he sent to Augustinian Prior Rev. Anthony B. Pizzo.
Currie, who identified...