WE’KOQMA’Q FIRST NATION: An active transportation project here was approved for provincial funding recently.
In a press release issued late last month, the provincial government confirmed that We’koqma’q First Nation will be provided with...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Strait Area Transit (SAT) Co-operative’s annual general meeting took place last Thursday, and the main message out of the session is that the busing service is pretty much breaking even while creating jobs and getting people...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council is looking at hiring a consultant to review the condition of a former school that was downloaded to the municipality.
After it was closed a decade ago, West Richmond Education...
ARICHAT: With three of its 30 food producers now hailing from Richmond County and a potential food drop-off point under consideration for St. Peter’s, the Pan-Cape Breton Food Hub has made a pitch for the municipality to consider contributing...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A former Strait area businessman, who
previously had convictions for sexually abusing minors thrown out due to
Charter violations, is now being sued by six complainants who say they have endured
a lifetime of emotional trauma from alleged...
ANTIGONISH: The Member of Parliament for Central Nova says this federal boundary review isn’t about a particular representative, as the boundary review has serious impacts on communities of interest within the geographical region.
A...
MABOU: A local resident’s extensive research into the former Mabou Asylum has prompted Inverness County council to explore ways of formally acknowledging the institution’s history and those who lived – and died – there.
STRAIT AREA: The Conservative Party of Canada has chosen a new leader and results from local ridings mirror the national result.
On Sept. 10, Napean-Carlton MP and former Minister of Employment and Social Development...
ANTIGONISH:
An RCMP officer was injured while arresting an intoxicated man.
Just
before midnight on April 27, an Antigonish RCMP member was getting fuel at
a service station on Beech Hill Road when he was approached by a taxi driver
about...
ANTIGONISH: During the regular monthly council meeting on February 19, Antigonish County passed a motion to file a notice of withdraw from the Eastern Strait Regional Enterprise Network (ESREN), following their decision to re-sign for another one-year period last...