ANTIGONISH: Council wants to see more people visiting and living in the downtown.
While fielding questions about the decline in the town’s population, Antigonish Mayor Laurie Boucher said council has a few ideas to try and help the town grow.
“We...
ARICHAT: With a municipal council decision on a wide-ranging Richmond County tourism project potentially only days away, residents are suggesting new ways to promote history and culture to visitors and local residents alike.
Isle Madame historian Odilon Boudreau made a...
ARICHAT: Residents in the St. George’s Channel area aired concerns about inaccurate road name descriptions on a globally-used digital mapping system during a recent meeting of Richmond Municipal Council.
Residents Doug Begg and Ross Wagg pointed out that Google Maps...
PORT HASTINGS: With the first day of spring less than two weeks away, officials at the Strait regional school board (SRSB) are cautiously optimistic that the 8.5 school days lost to region-wide weather-related closures will not have a major...
PORT HASTINGS: The Strait regional school board (SRSB) is days away from relocating its central office to one of the board’s high schools.
After two decades at its current home, a refurbished school building in Port Hastings, the board will...
PORT HASTINGS: The committee reviewing the future of three Inverness County schools for the Strait regional school board (SRSB) will get an extra 30 days to complete their work this spring.
Originally slated to wrap up their review of Mabou’s...
PORT HASTINGS: Inverness Council is looking for more say in decisions that could result in the loss of infrastructure.
“As part of our county’s value proposition in making our communities attractive places to stay in or move to, I’d like...
PORT HASTINGS: For the second consecutive year, the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is projecting a region-wide decline of 227 students, even though last year’s projection was nearly seven times higher than the drop that actually resulted for the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A Mulgrave man will appear in Supreme Court next Friday on four charges relating to a fatal single-vehicle collision.
Scott Lundrigan, 22, faces charges of impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing the death of James Poirier, impaired...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is officially investigating the discovery of an animal carcass that was tied to a building on the town’s waterfront.
Officials with the SPCA’s Antigonish office, which currently oversees...