Truro News

By Roger Taylor  It started on January 1 – new federal rules required of residential mortgage borrowers. Mortgage seekers with a down payment of more than 20 per cent have been required to qualify at a significantly higher rate when ...

It was panic time. Elementary school teacher Meghan Donat and her husband Morgan, a self-employed massage therapist, had just moved into their $275,000 dream home on three acres outside Bridgewater in southern Nova Scotia. It was February 2013, ...

Long before the diesel engine, Atlantic Canadian fishermen worked in high-sided, flat-bottomedrowboats called dories. Dories could carry up to about 360 kilograms and were used along the Atlantic coast throughout the 18th century, until ...

CALGARY – No need to talk to Reid Robinson about ‘necessity being the mother of invention.’ He’s been there, done that. Fifteen months and 10 surgeries after a car accident that shattered the lower portion of his right ...

Lauren Marshall and Brandon Levesque didn’t have to wait long for feedback on their business. Half an hour after their Facebook page Real Fake Meats went up one morning last month at 5 a.m., they had two orders. A few days later, the first ...

TRURO, N.S. – As startup culture and entrepreneurialism continues to rise, a new partnership is looking at how Truro can support its independent business ventures. The Truro & Colchester Partnership for Economic Prosperity and Mashup Lab ...

ATLANTA, Kings County — As a farmer, one would expect Greg Gerrits to enjoys seeing the sun. It’s important to the growth of his crops atElmridge Farm, after all. But the sun also — if it cooperates — provides power ...

SYDNEY — Wally Power recounted the moment his life changed forever when he was working at a pulp mill in Point Tupper. ...

YARMOUTH, N.S. – There was a lot of agreement and disagreement when DFO representatives met with the fishing industry to consult and share information about marine protected areas (MPAs) during a recent session in Yarmouth. Many in the room ...

BIBLE HILL, N.S. The Esso gas bar and convenience store on Pictou Road is being replaced with a new structure that will include a Tim Horton’s drive-thru. “We’re building a new building kind of at the rear of the site, with a ...