PORT HAWKESBURY: Town officials here are providing more details about the financial breakdown of an ambitious overhaul of Reeves Street, while pledging further public meetings on the issue and insisting that the project won’t drive up town tax rates.
With...
ANTIGONISH: Members of the Strait regional school board (SRSB) now have armloads of recommendations, reports and commentary to consider, in the wake of an often-heated 150-minute public discussion on the future of five schools in Antigonish and the surrounding...
ANTIGONISH: The town is looking at mixing it up when it comes to its commercial fringe areas.
Brynn Nheiley, planning and development officer with the Town of Antigonish, took the lead on a public input session looking at options to...
PORT HOOD: Recent closures of the Canso Causeway have Inverness Municipal Council mulling over what can be done to make bad situations more tolerable.
Councillor John Dowling brought up the matter during the petitions and resolutions section of the municipality’s...
GLENCOE: A house fire in Inverness County yesterday claimed the life of a 49-year-old woman.
At around 7:20 a.m. on April 11, members of Inverness District RCMP were called to assist with a house fire on MacKinnon Road in Glencoe....
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia’s first, dedicated program to address repairs and reconstruction on gravel roads will see an annual $10 million in new funding.
The Gravel Road Capital Program was introduced last Friday. The funding, broken down based on the number...
PORT HAWKESBURY: With a potential spring election on the horizon, the province’s NDP leader is pleased with the people serving as the party’s the candidates.
Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill, who passed through the area last Sunday for the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Two men facing weapon charges following a home invasion remain in custody.
On March 8, Morgan Herney, 20, and Victor Herney, 23, of Eskasoni, appeared in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court with each facing a charge of assault with...
ANTIGONISH: A man awaiting sentencing on a sexual assault conviction has died.
William Roger MacLellan, who was convicted of sexual assault last year, passed away on April 5, the day before he was set to receive sentencing.
Crown attorney Thomas Kayter...
FRANKVILLE: On March 9, the RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit of Antigonish/ Guysborough County searched a home in Frankville and quantities of marijuana and prescription pills were seized.
The same home was searched yesterday by RCMP, and quantities of marijuana and...