PORT HAWKESBURY: Taking a page from reality television, organizers of a new contest are looking to draw new business to town.
On July 1, the Eastern-Strait Regional Enterprise Network (ESREN) and the Town of Port Hawkesbury launched Start-Up Port Hawkesbury,...
AULD’S COVE: Participants in a series of Canada Day protests whose sits included the mainland side of the Canso Causeway are pleased with the response they received from passing motorists and vowing to continue their efforts.
The national aboriginal organization...
PORT HAWKESBURY: After spending several days promoting the town and the entirety of Cape Breton Island to municipal leaders in Vietnam, Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton now has a greater appreciation for her homeland as well as the Asian nation that...
PORT HAWKESBURY: People charged in relation to a shooting last month are set to appear in provincial court later this month.
RCMP arrested and charged Justin Francis Goswell, 27, and James Edwin ‘Tyler’ Goswell, 33, and Makayla Sutherland, 21, following...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Celtic Air Services Limited, a local airport services company, will begin operating the Port Hawkesbury Airport this Saturday (July 15) just in time for the summer’s peak season.
“We’re incredibly excited to get everything finalized in time to...
LONG POINT: Police are saying a local man’s death is not considered suspicious.
At around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4, Inverness District RCMP responded to a call of a 70-year-old man from Long Point who failed to return home...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A recent issue with the swing bridge left traffic backed up on both sides of the Canso Causeway.
Andrew MacPherson, project engineer with Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, said the swing bridge was stuck in the open-for-sea...
POTLOTEK: A local student is receiving praise for her quick thinking in helping keep a fellow student safe.
On March 10, East Richmond Education Centre student Zophia Nicholas helped stop her friend Amaya Johnson from choking in the classroom.
“I was...
STRAIT-RICHMOND: Last Thursday at the Richmond County Literacy Network office in St. Peter’s, a group of summer students met with members of the Seniors Take Action Coalition’s Housing Committee to work toward garnering important information from the public.
“There are...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Liberal MP for Cape Breton-Canso is hoping a federal financial commitment to the clean-up of derelict and abandoned vessels will put an end to developments such as the mooring of a cargo ship at the town’s...