MELLVILLE: A 25-year-old Inverness County resident is facing cocaine trafficking charges after police searched his home last weekend. On June 8, Inverness District RCMP and the Inverness/Richmond District RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit made an arrest and searched...
HALIFAX: As of today, Nova Scotia has 428 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after 21 new cases were identified on Good Friday. In the Eastern Zone – taking in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton – no...
ANTIGONISH:At 3 p.m. on December 9, a member of RCMP Eastern Traffic Services observed a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed on Highway 104. The vehicle was clocked at 157 kilometres an hour (km/h) in an 100 km/hr zone, 57 km/hr over the posted...
HALIFAX: Construction and renovation projects at two long-term care facilities in the Strait area are about to begin. According to a press release issued on May 11, the province announced funding to build or...
ANTIGONISH: An elderly man is doing well thanks to the quick thinking of a Nova Scotia RCMP officer, a vehicle transportation inspector and community members. While conducting a checkpoint on Feb. 4, Cst. Robert...
MARGAREE FORKS: An Inverness County woman drowned after tubing a local river this past weekend. The 58-year-old, who has not been identified, was found near Coady Road along the Maragree River in Margaree Forks.
IRON MINES: Sexual abuse allegations against the founder of the international L’Arche movement, are affecting the local group. Two weeks ago, Mukthar Limpao - executive director and community leader of L’Arche Cape Breton – sent out...
PORT HASTINGS: A traffic stop yesterday resulted in members of Inverness District RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit arresting a man and a woman for drug offences. The traffic stop occurred on Highway 19 in Port Hastings  at approximately 3:45 p.m....
PORT HAWKESBURY: A local businessman has pleaded not guilty to extortion, and is scheduled to be back in court in April to answer to firearms charges. Frank Eckhardt was not present while his lawyer...
EVANSTON: The television system serving the Strait-Richmond Hospital was out of service since late in December, and the son of one patient wants answers. Darren Arsenault, who is a member of the Toronto Police...




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