ANTIGONISH: Municipalities within Central Nova received an unexpected $3.8
million boost from Ottawa during an election-year announcement that sees the
2019-20 one-time top up transfer double from previous years.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s 2019 budget included...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council will contact its
auditors to examine and report on an account that was connected to the firing
of the Chief Administrative Officer earlier this month.
During a committee-of-the-whole meeting on April 8...
INVERNESS: Police charged two people with drug trafficking after a search of a residence last weekend.
On April 13,
Inverness District RCMP, with assistance from the Inverness/Richmond District
Street Crime Enforcement Unit, executed a...
PORT HOOD: Councillors around the table in Inverness
County are concerned about the future of the Cape Breton Island Housing
Authority office in Inverness.
Given that council is hearing rumours about the office
potentially closing, the municipal...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council has taken its
message to cyberspace.
“We had a notice of motion at our last meeting on March 7, and we finalized it today,” said Warden
Betty Ann MacQuarrie. “Immediately...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town officials are in the early stages
of their budget deliberations, with town councillors holding their second
budget meeting on April 3.
After the regular Port Hawkesbury Town Council meeting
on April 2, Mayor Brenda...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Despite cancelling their scheduled joint
council meeting later this month with the Municipality of the County of
Richmond, the mayor says she still has confidence that the two
municipal counterparts can have an ongoing and successful partnership.
PORT HAWKESBURY: According to the mayor, a traffic
study has recently started to examine the 1.5 kilometre (km) section of the
Granville Street corridor from Prince Street to Sydney Street.
Following the regular towm council meeting...
BAYFIELD: Two men from Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation have
died while a women was rescued and transported to hospital after the oyster
boat they were in capsized near Seagrass Lane in Bayfield Monday afternoon.
Jennifer Clarke, public...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town councillors announced they have
awarded the contract for the street upgrade project, that’s part of the larger
Destination Reeves Street project, during their regular town council meeting on
April 2.
Terry Doyle, Port Hawkesbury’s...