PORT HAWKESBURY: The Strait regional school board (SRSB) held its last monthly meeting on March 7 following the introduction of new legislation to dissolve the province’s English school boards.
SRSB superintendent Ford Rice sent a letter to parents and guardians...
HALIFAX: The end of an incentive program for family
doctors to expand their practices was criticized by Nova Scotia’s Official
Opposition.
Last week, Progressive Conservative health and wellness
critic, Karla MacFarlane, asked Minister of Health and Wellness,...
ANTIGONISH: A pair of positive COVID-19 tests recorded at StFX are not connected to each other or other cases in the Eastern Zone.
On, Jan. 9, provincial officials reported that a second StFX student...
ANTIGONISH: The St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Foundation (SMRHF) received a significant donation to their “The Time is Now” campaign in support of cardiorespiratory care at the hospital.
On September 10 in Antigonish, Frank Sobey, chair of the Sobey Foundation, announced...
HALIFAX: StFX has received the largest single donation in the university’s 165-year history.
At the university’s inaugural National Dinner EAST event in Halifax, StFX president Kent MacDonald announced a gift of $10 million from Amelia and Lino Saputo of Montreal....
ANTIGONISH: A local university student received both praise and funding following a recent pitch competition.
StFX entrepreneurship student Hannah Chisholm recently won the 100 Seeds Atlantic pitch competition and claimed the top prize of $10,000. Chisholm will use the money...
STRAIT AREA: Power outages, poor road conditions, a fatal accident in Richmond County and an unexpected overnight stay in Whycocomagh for several Maritime Bus passengers were among the outcomes of a series of storms that lashed Cape Breton and...
HALIFAX: The provincial government announced funding of more than $1.5 billion in the 2022-2023 capital plan.
During a briefing in Halifax on March 23, Finance and Treasury Board Minister Allan MacMaster said this will...
HALIFAX: After too many people broke social isolation
rules, the province declared a State of Emergency.
“Today, I need to focus on those who are not following
public health advice,” Premier Stephen McNeil said during a...
ARICHAT; It's not every teenager in Nova Scotia who can say they have sailed aboard a tall ship in France and England but for Tim Wypper, the cadet program made it possible.
Wypper, a Grade 11 student at Richmond Academy,...