HALIFAX: The transportation department has no plans to replace a bridge on Isle Madame but is planning to do work on the St. Peter’s to Fourchu Road. On April 18, Richmond Progressive Conservative candidate...
ANTIGONISH: The province’s regulatory body dismissed a number of compensation claims relating to local twinning of Highway 104. In 2016, Roseanne MacEachern and Dream Catcher’s Deli and Treats; Eileen Curry and Justamere Cafe; Elaine Rhynold, Gerard...
PORT HAWKESBURY: An Isle Madame man will stand trial next month on a charge of sexual assault involving a minor. The trial for Joseph Valma Samson, 69, of Arichat is scheduled to start in...
HALIFAX: Clinics are opening across the province this month to give Nova Scotians booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine. In a press release issued today, the provincial government said existing COVID-19 testing centres will offer...
ANTIGONISH: After a number of collisions and requests from municipal council, changes were made to a local intersection and more are coming. On January 3, the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal announced the closure...
INVERNESS COUNTY: One swimmer passed away and four others were rescued at beaches in Inverness County last weekend. On Saturday, July 22, just before 2 p.m., Inverness District RCMP responded to a report of a suspected drowning at Port Hood...
ARICHAT: Richmond County will remain part of the Cape Breton Regional Enterprise Network (CBREN). Last night during Richmond Municipal Council’s committee-of-the-whole meeting in Arichat, district 4 councillor Gilbert Boucher made a motion for the municipality...
CANSO: The company proposing Canada’s first spaceport near Canso received approval from the province’s Department of Environment. Steve Matier, president and CEO of Martime Launch Services (MLS), plans to build the private, commercial rocket launch site...
LOUISDALE: Older adults in the Strait-Richmond area will soon have improved access to mental health and addictions support. Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Michel Samson announced a $120,000 community mental health and addictions grant to the Municipality of Richmond County on behalf...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Despite cancelling their scheduled joint council meeting later this month with the Municipality of the County of Richmond, the mayor says she still has confidence that the two municipal counterparts can have an ongoing and successful partnership.




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