ARICHAT: The 17-unit Clairestone Inn is now taking bookings and is planning an official opening some time in June.
Owner Shauna Landry recalled that she finalized the purchase of the former L’Auberge Acadienne Inn in February. The founder of City...
ANTIGONISH: The county’s tax rates are staying the same.
Last week, council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish announced its budget and tax rates for the current fiscal year. The residential rate stays at $0.88 per $100 of...
D’ESCOUSSE: A local yacht club is expressing its concern with the inability of a lift bridge to open for boaters.
Lennox Passage Yacht Club commodore Teddy Poirier said he was told by Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Alana Paon that the Lennox...
PETIT DE GRAT: Former and current work colleagues, friends, fellow politicians, former constituents, and family members gathered to thank a former MLA and cabinet minister.
On May 25, Centre La Picasse in Petit de Grat hosted a tribute dinner in...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Strait Area Transit (SAT) Co-operative’s annual general meeting took place last Thursday, and the main message out of the session is that the busing service is pretty much breaking even while creating jobs and getting people...
HALIFAX: The provincial government and Port Hawkesbury Paper are promising no more reoccurrences of an incident in which old growth forest was cut in Guysborough County.
The Department of Natural Resources recently assessed 27 forest stands in the Lawlor Lake...
OTTAWA: Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner is investigating the minister of fisheries’ recent decision to award an arctic surf clam quota.
Jocelyne L. Brisebois, a spokesperson for the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner confirmed...
HALIFAX: Melford Atlantic Gateway has taken the next step toward building a proposed container terminal project in Guysborough County.
Melford Atlantic Terminal Inc. has selected Colorado-based company BergerABAM to provide engineering services for the planned Melford Atlantic Gateway Terminal and Logistics Park. The...
HALIFAX: Officials in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) have started the process to redesign the formula to fund public education.
Education minister Zach Churchill confirmed the news during a media scrum at Province House in Halifax...
HALIFAX: The fatality inquiry into the deaths of Lionel Desmond and his family will be held in Guysborough.
On January 3, 2017, the bodies of Desmond, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, his wife, 31-year-old Shanna, their 10-year-old daughter,...