HALIFAX: Recreation areas used by residents for years will soon be provincial parks. Last week the provincial government announced that of Dunns Beach and Monks Head in Antigonish County will be designated as provincial...
ANTIGONISH: The RCMP said it is investigating a recent break, enter and theft from a business in the town last weekend. RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Andrew Joyce told The Reporter the break-in was reported to...
ANTIGONISH: Despite criticism from a professor, the university has refused to apologize for donations received for a new building on campus. Recent news reports list Wafic Said, Victor Dahdaleh, Wilbur Ross, and David Koch as donors to StFX University’s Mulroney...
HALIFAX: As students start learning from home, the province has made available a breakdown of COVID-19 cases in each part of the province and is taking steps to do more testing and enforcement. Accounting for approximately...
ARICHAT: A municipally-owned playground in this community will get some attention from Richmond County officials, as a result of concerns raised by one of Isle Madame’s two municipal councillors. Staffers with the county’s recreation and public works offices will investigate...
MULGRAVE: A meeting between Mulgrave town councillors and the town’s volunteer fire department has started the process of mending their strained relationship, the mayor says. A conflict between Darlene Berthier Sampson, Mulgrave’s Chief Administrative Officer, and Michael...
ARICHAT: Volunteer fire departments in Richmond County want the municipality to look at funding options. During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on Oct. 25 in Arichat, District 5 Councillor Brent Sampson...
ARICHAT: Despite pledging to push the federal and provincial governments to fund individual tourism developments throughout Richmond County, municipal officials received an angry reaction Monday evening for their decision to withdraw from a multi-million-dollar county-wide tourism strategy Councillors voted 3-1...
HALIFAX: Schools in the Strait area will be hosting a new program, as well as more busing for pre-primary students. On August 20, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development announced locations for the Nova...
ANTIGONISH: The Municipality of the County of Antigonish has made an amendment to their Land Use By-Law to allow for the rezoning of a section of the municipality from R1 to R2; to allow for multi-unit dwellings.




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