ANTIGONISH: The warden says there is a place for the county in recruiting doctors to the area.
“I think it’s important that both the town and county recognize anytime we’re looking at trying to get physicians to relocate to this...
ANTIGONISH: County council held off on making a decision on the local enterprise network.
Antigonish Municipal Council will hold a meeting to review its partnership with the Eastern Strait Regional Enterprise Network tomorrow night (January 22).
On January 15, Antigonish Warden...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Inverness District RCMP is asking for help from the public to identify suspects following a theft from a business on Reeves Street in Port Hawkesbury.
On January 10 at approximately 7:30 p.m., a woman and a man entered the business together. The man picked...
LEXINGTON: The RCMP is looking for the owner of tools police believe were stolen.
The Inverness District RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit and members of Inverness District RCMP searched a home on Highway 105 in Lexington, just outside of Port Hastings.
Police seized seven...
ARICHAT: Funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) was announced for a program to revitalize the municipality’s shire town.
This morning in Arichat, Cape Breton-Canso MP Rodger Cuzner announced that ACOA invested $700,944 through its Innovative Communities Fund to...
L’ARDOISE: A new way to share knowledge and services is taking shape in Richmond County.
Launched on August 2, 2018, the Community Skill Exchange-Richmond County TimeBank is an organized, not-for-profit, web-based way to share skills or energy to help others.
Tara...
ARICHAT: The community of Isle Madame recently lost a staunch advocate of the local healthcare facility.
Lorna George passed away on December 18 at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital at the age of 91.
Isle Madame physician, Dr. Robert Martel said St....
PORT HAWKESBURY: Like a public utility, some things are expected to remain in place, and the presence of Bob and Brenda MacEachern as the driving force behind 101.5 The Hawk was one of those.
That might be why, on January...
INVERNESS: The health authority has responded to criticism after a local doctor resigned recently.
St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish and the Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital in Inverness lost general surgeon, Dr. Jeannie MacGillivray following her resignation after multiple years...
STRAIT AREA: In the midst of a federal cabinet shuffle, two parliamentary secretaries took a tour of the region and one of them announced funding for a major piece of tourism infrastructure.
Sean Fraser, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of...