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,...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A first for the Strait area will take place Wednesday as Celtic Air Services Ltd. (CASL) hosts the Atlantic Canada International Air Show at the Port Hawkesbury Airport.
“It’s pretty surreal,” said Damian MacInnis, vice president of Celtic...
L’ARDOISE: A Richmond County woman wants to give caregivers a helping hand with her new business.
Last week, Jamie Morrison launched Out & About Respite, which operates the area’s first adult day program at the Dr. Kingston Memorial Community Health...
ANTIGONISH: A local project that uses the arts to help people with dementia improve their quality of life received a significant boost this week.
On May 14, Central Nova MP Sean Fraser announced a federal grant of $25,000 through the...
LOUISDALE: A pilot project is trying to use food and conversation to fight social isolation among senior citizens.
The “Around the Dinner Table” pilot project was a concept outlined by the MIND-BODY-SPIRIT (MBS) Project to allow socially-isolated seniors to become...
ANTIGONISH: Council heard back from the province’s minister responsible for infrastructure about a pair of local roads and a bridge.
During last week’s regular monthly meeting of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, council heard correspondence from Transportation and...