PORT HAWKESBURY: The officer who reviewed Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearm licence testified on March 23, had he been made aware of his run-ins with the police and struggles with his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), he may have...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The uncle of retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond says he wasn’t in distress and didn’t see any warning signs from his nephew when he spent the night at his house before carrying out the triple-murder suicide...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Within 48 hours of the province allowing more people to get vaccinated at more locations, a pharmacy vaccine clinic here was unable to take more appointments.
On March 28, The Medicine Shoppe...
HEATHERTON: Brent Chisholm was headed to Antigonish on March 22, when he noticed something bright orange painted on the roadway along Highway 104 at the Heatherton Hill.
“I was on my way into town...
HALIFAX: A local opposition MLA says he doesn’t see the recently tabled budget as bringing Nova Scotia to a fair and prosperous future, or on a path to balance, as the Liberal government claims.
MULGRAVE: After 14 years of a fixed funding model, the Eastern Counties Regional Libraries (ECRL) is entering into a new library funding formula to ensure the funds its receives from each municipality are serving the library needs...
ARICHAT: Councillors in Richmond County offered their support to a local ATV club trying to create a multi-use trail.
Council approved a motion from its committee of the whole to issue a letter of...
HALIFAX: Three weeks after announcing a compensation fund, the provincial government introduced legislation to accelerate the settling of land claims and address land ownership issues in five historic African Nova Scotian communities.
On March...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council has agreed to provide emergency funding to the Dr. Kingston Memorial Community Health Centre in L’Ardoise.
During the regular monthly meeting in Arichat on March 22, councillors voted unanimously to...
ANTIGONISH: The Extension Department at StFX University is calling on all members of the non-profit and co-operative housing sector to band together to focus on strengthening the provincial community housing sector.
In partnership with...