ST. PETER’S: The St. Peter’s Canal National Historic
Site is set to mark a milestone anniversary this year.
After a 15-year construction phase, preceded by years
of studying its feasibility, the canal opened for the first...
POINT TUPPER: To ensure continued safety and reliable
operations at one of its generating stations, Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) is now entering into the
final stages of a 10-week maintenance outage in Point Tupper for the
refurbishing of the...
ANTIGONISH: Justin Trudeau says young people are not
the leaders of tomorrow, but the leaders of today.
The Prime Minister made the statement during the
opening ceremonies of the Nova Scotia Liberal Annual General Meeting (AGM)...
GUYSBOROUGH: The preliminary phase of the Fatality
Inquiry looking into what caused retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond to kill his
mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter, before turning the gun on himself, began
May 21 more than two years after the tragic...
ARICHAT: Council will have staff investigate how to
engage the public in the debate over a mayor versus a warden system.
During the regular monthly meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council last night in Arichat, council debated...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council will meet with a mediator and an advisor to be appointed and paid for by the Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA).
During the regular monthly meeting of council last
night...
ANTIGONISH: Councillors in the Municipality of the
County of Antigonish have once again held the line on their municipal taxes.
Council unanimously approved their 2019-20 Municipal
Operating and Capital Budget during its regular municipal council meeting...
ANTIGONISH: The town’s tax rates are staying the same.
During a special meeting of council on May 21, the Town
of Antigonish set its residential tax rate at $1.09 per $100 of assessment and
its commercial...
PORT HOOD: Money matters were part of the agenda during
Inverness County’s May 16 committee-of-the-whole meeting.
Funding requests, loan guarantees and tax write-offs
all found their way onto council’s agenda, and arguably the most interesting
issue related...
ANTIGONISH: A 45-year-old Lakevale, Antigonish County
man has entered not guilty pleas for his alleged involvement in a fatal two-car
collision in Porter’s Lake along Highway 107 on January 17, 2018.
Chet Bernard Chisholm had been...