ANTIGONISH: St. Francis Xavier University is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with Cultivator Catalyst Corporation (CCC), whose wholly owned Nova Scotia based subsidiary, THC Dispensaries Canada Inc. (THC Inc) became a licensed producer of cannabis on...
ANTIGONISH: The Nova Scotia Health Authority has approved the establishment of a new palliative care inpatient unit at St Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish.
Tate Construction has been awarded the contract and renovations to create the new unit will begin...
ANTIGONISH: News report list Wafic Said, Victor Dahdaleh, Wilbur Ross, and David Koch as donors to StFX University’s Mulroney Institute of Government and Xaverian Commons, a multi-million dollar project on the Antigonish school’s campus for which the former Canadian...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Superintendent Ford Rice says the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is taking recent knife-related incidents at two local schools very seriously.
The first incident on October 10 involved a folding utility knife and an alleged threat to a...
PETIT DE GRAT: Doug Keefe, the head of the commission tasked with consulting Acadians, Francophones and African Nova Scotians on effective representation, said it’s clear Richmond County residents want their former electoral riding restored.
A number of people who spoke...
ANTIGONISH: Former Antigonish Town councillor John Robert MacIsaac of Antigonish faced charges of accessing child pornography and possessing child pornography. MacIsaac’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty on both charges on MacIsaac’s behalf during a hearing in Antigonish...
ARICHAT: Richmond County’s incoming Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Louis Digout confirmed that two municipal staff positions were eliminated as the result of an organizational review of the municipality’s operations that got underway last past spring.
Digout said the municipality had...
HALIFAX: The Honourable Arthur Joseph LeBlanc took the oath of office, on June 28 in Halifax as Nova Scotia’s 33rd lieutenant-governor since Confederation.
Premier Stephen McNeil noted that Lt.-Gov. LeBlanc has made numerous contributions to the Acadian community and has...
CLOVERVILLE: The RCMP is investigating the theft of an antique truck from a residence in Antigonish County.
Sometime between December 23 and December 27, a 1977 three-quarter ton Ford F250 pick-up truck, green in colour, was stolen from a residence...
LOWER L’ARDOISE: The victim of an ATV collision on Christmas Eve has been identified.
Thirty-eight-year-old Gavin Matthew Sampson of Lower L’Ardoise was found deceased at the scene of the single ATV collision on Highway 347.
Richmond District RCMP responded to the...