PORT HAWKESBURY: The Town of Port Hawkesbury posted a surplus for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. The town’s financial statements and audit report was presented by Ryan Armstrong of Grant Thornton during the September council meeting on September 11. Port Hawkesbury ended...
ANTIGONISH: The St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Foundation (SMRHF) received a significant donation to their “The Time is Now” campaign in support of cardiorespiratory care at the hospital. On September 10 in Antigonish, Frank Sobey, chair of the Sobey Foundation, announced...
HALIFAX: The provincial government refused to bite on a request from a Strait area MLA to make changes to the Port Hastings Rotary. During Question Period in the Nova Scotia Legislature on September 11, Inverness MLA Allan MacMaster recalled a...
GRAND ANSE: The people of Richmond County want their riding back. On September 14 at the Louisdale and Area Fire Hall in Grand Anse, residents and representatives of various organizations unanimously called for the Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission to...
ARICHAT: The Inverness-Richmond County Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU) and Richmond County RCMP executed a search warrant at a residence in Arichat on September 12. As a result of the search, two woman are facing charges. Ann Marie Dorey, 56, and...
OTTAWA: The federal government said it will make a lucrative clam quota available in two years and it wants a First Nations bid to assume control. The next day, Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner ruled that the former...
HALIFAX: The crew of a First Nations fishing boat that caught fire off the coast of Cape Breton was rescued last night. Major Mark Gough, Senior Public Affairs Officer with Maritime Forces Atlantic, explained that at approximately 8:30 p.m., the...
ANTIGONISH: Antigonish County is becoming a whole lot greener, thanks to Canada’s newest cash crop. Highland Grow Inc., nestled in picturesque Ohio East, has sent a request to the federal regulator for a final inspection that’s required to obtain a...
BEDFORD: Nourish Your Roots, (NYR) is a healthy fundraising program developed by Nourish Nova Scotia for schools and non-profit childcare centres that connects children and families to the healthy, local and fresh food available from Nova Scotia farmers. Instead of...
OTTAWA: Central Nova MP Sean Fraser has been appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The announcement was made through a release by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on August 31. The parliamentary secretaries included in...




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