A class action is being launched against the Nova Scotia Health Authority over a privacy breach at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish. Halifax-based Wagners Law Firm filed a statement of claim with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on ...

A demolition order for a Hillside home deemed dangerous and unsightly according to the Municipal Government Act was approved by the Municipality of Pictou County (MOPC) council on May 6. Evan Hale, the director of emergency services for MOPC, brought ...

Conditional sentence with house arrest Donald Hill, 35, of Centreville, will serve a period of imprisonment in the community for wounding an individual, thereby committing aggravated assault. Hill changed his plea to guilty on Oct. 5, 2023. The ...

For Truro’s younger residents, Bill Mills may be the only mayor they remember. Elected to office in 1987 as a councillor for Ward 1, Mills became mayor of Truro in 1997 – 27 years ago – after a brief stint as a councillor in his hometown of ...

Two of three men arrested last month and charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of Barry Albert in Annapolis County have retained legal counsel. The trio appeared in Annapolis Royal provincial court Tuesday. Derrick Wayne Charles Robar, ...

Some lessons are best learned outside the classroom. Twenty-one King’s-Edgehill School students discovered that first-hand while trekking through the beautiful but dangerous wilds of Africa. Earlier this year, the group of teenagers participated in a ...

Volunteers from the Construction Engineering Flight in Pictou and many others planted several thousand spruce seedlings in Merigomish on Saturday, May 13. The planting was a project of the Climate Change Committee for the Municipality of Pictou ...

The Yarmouth arts community and others gathered in protest outside of the now permanently closed Western Branch of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth to paint a picture for the provincial government that this closure is the wrong decision. On ...

Four candidates have put their names forward for the vacant MLA seat for Pictou West. Melinda MacKenzie for the NDP, Clare Brett for the Green Party, Mary Elliott for the Liberals and Marco MacLeod for the Conservatives. Advance polls have opened for ...

Voters will be able to cast their ballots for the Pictou West byelection on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, but Elections Nova Scotia wants to remind eligible locals that they can vote ahead of time at either the returning office or the advance poll. Early ...