ANTIGONISH: Officials with the Nova Scotia Health
Authority (NSHA) say five family medicine and four specialist positions have
been filled in the Eastern Zone.
During the authority’s board of directors meeting in
Antigonish last Thursday, Tim Guest,...
ANTIGONISH: Town council is looking to curb
disturbances during homecoming again this year.
Following last week’s meeting of Antigonish Town
Council, Mayor Laurie Boucher said the town has budgeted funds to support an
on-campus event at StFX...
ARICHAT: Councillors denied a motion to spend money on
public meetings around the municipality to gauge support for implementing a
mayoral system.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council last night in Arichat, council voted...
GUYSBOROUGH: The warden of the Municipality of the
District of Guysborough says the municipality weathered Hurricane Dorian fairly
well and credits everyone working together as a team in the equation.
Municipal councillors were presented a report...
ANTIGONISH: It was a wild and windy weekend but they
rode it out.
Hurricane Dorian rushed through the province on the
weekend of September 7, leaving as many as 400,000 Nova Scotia Power (NSP)
customers without power,...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council gathered for its
committee-of-the-whole meeting last Friday, and dominating the meeting was the
matter of Hurricane Dorian and the storm’s impact on the local area.
“Two items I wanted to bring...
GUYSBOROUGH: Warden Vernon Pitts says he expects to see
the transfer of assets of the Canso Electric Light Utility (CEU) from the
Municipality of the District of Guysborough to Nova Scotia Power (NSP) by the
end of the year.
PORT HOOD: Councillors in Inverness County put forward
a list of J-Roads they’ll submit to the Department of Transportation and
Infrastructure Renewal (DTIR) for repairs.
The project will see the province and the municipality
cost share repairs...
MONTREAL, QC: The Crown Prosecutor’s office here has decided not to proceed with charges of failing to register as a sex offender against a former Strait area businessman who was convicted of sex crimes involving young boys.
ST. PETERS: As clean-up and restoration efforts wind
down, the former Progressive Conservative - now Independent MLA for Cape
Breton-Richmond - says it could have been a lot worse.
Considering what happened in Halifax and in...