GUYSBOROUGH: The Afghanistan war veteran
who shot and killed his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter in their Upper
Big Tracadie home on Jan. 3, 2017 did so from approximately one-metre away, a
pathologist testified on January 30.
SYDNEY: On Tuesday, the board
of directors of the YMCA of Cape Breton voted to close the YMCA of Cape Breton’s
Port Hawkesbury branch effective February 22.
The vote was made
following an extensive review of...
HALIFAX: Hospitals in Inverness and Antigonish will be
receiving upgrades to train family medicine residents.
Today the province announced infrastructure funding of
$3.15 million to help finish the work being done to accommodate new family
residents at...
GUYSBOROUGH: The lead investigator into the
deaths of Afghanistan war veteran and his family detailed the chain of events,
including the steps the former soldier took and the level of planning that led
to the triple murder-suicide, on Wednesday at...
ANTIGONISH: Rinaujan Kananesan, founder of Renewly Initiatives Inc., says he
wouldn’t be where he is today without networking, and meeting the people he has
so far along his journey.
Speaking at the second annual Connect @...
HALIFAX: The successful bidder has been selected to
design, build, finance, operate and maintain a section of the Highway 104 which
will be twinned between Sutherlands River, Pictou County and Antigonish County.
Dexter Nova Alliance was...
GUYSBOROUGH: What started out as a call to
a suicide in progress, responding officers dispatched to the Desmond residence
in Upper Big Tracadie, discovered the former Afghanistan war veteran had
fatally shot his mother, wife and daughter, before turning the...
ARICHAT: A local yacht club was granted an extension to
complete a long-awaited project.
The regular monthly meeting of Richmond Municipal
Council on January 27 in Arichat accepted the recommendation of the
committee-of the-whole to grant a...
ARICHAT: Councillors were provided with a breakdown of
the planning commission’s budget for the next fiscal year.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council on January 27 in Arichat, the Eastern District Planning
Commission’s (EDPC)...
ARICHAT:
Richmond RCMP said they caught 43 drivers speeding in the municipality in the
last four months of the year.
At
a meeting of Richmond County’s police advisory board on January 16, Richmond
County District RCMP Sergeant Darrell...