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...
HALIFAX: Dr. Matt Bowes, Nova Scotia's Chief Medical Examiner, today recommended an inquiry into the deaths of Lionel Desmond and his family under the Fatality Investigations Act.
"There have been many questions raised by the family and members of the...
ANTIGONISH: The federal government, through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s seed funding program, announced $81,095 in funding for the second phase of the Riverside Estates development.
A release from the government stated the money would go towards architect fees,...
ANTIGONISH: On March 31, Justice Patrick J. Murray announced his decision to enter a stay of proceedings on the matter involving former StFX professor Behrang Foroughi-Mobarakeh who had been charged with sexual assault on March 31, 2014. The accused...
ANTIGONISH: Forty people, including municipal and provincial politicians, attended a public meeting on April 3 at StFX organized by the Facebook group “Antigonish Students and Schools Matter.”
Buoyed by 340 signatures on a Change.org on-line petition opposing the closure of...
HALIFAX: On February 23, the RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime unit executed search warrants at residences in Arichat, West Arichat, Baddeck and Hubley, resulting in the arrests of four men including Andrew Francis Frank, 59, of West Arichat...
ANTIGONISH: The final week of January kicked off with a public meeting held by the School Options Committee (SOC) investigating the Dalbrae Academy feeder system.
This gathering at Port Hood’s Bayview Education Centre (BEC) saw the unveiling of two scenarios...