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Offshore wind development: Interim report ‘an excellent foundation for future discussions’
Six Nova Scotia offshore areas are being proposed as potential sites for future offshore wind development in the interim report: Regional Assessment of Offshore Wind Development in Nova Scotia. The report was released on March 25 by the independent ...
Collecting aid for those in need: Pictou County high school student’s project aims to support local shelters
Mohammad Tolba recognized a problem that needed support when he came up with his school project. The Northumberland Regional High School (NRHS) student is collecting supplies for some of the most vulnerable people in the community – the unhoused.
Overcoming challenges: Digby adult learner has extra reason to celebrate
The challenges that can often go along with being an adult learner aren’t stopping Digby area resident Myles Haight from reaching for his goals. A student with the Digby Area Learning Association, Haight was the winner of an iPad mini from Literacy ...
'Shameful': Human rights lawyer calls out N.S. for nation-trailing welfare rates
The numbers are stark. A non-disabled single person on welfare in Nova Scotia will get only $9,739 this year, more than $18,000 below the poverty line in Halifax. A single parent with a two-year-old child will get about $22,650. That is $16,500 short ...
School violence: Union says Tories don’t want to hear from teachers
The Nova Scotia Teachers Union will have a lot to say about the auditor general's upcoming report on violence in school. But members won’t get a say before then. The Tory majority decided that the public accounts committee will hear only from the ...
Driver takes out power pole, fire hydrant in Hants Border, N.S.
People travelling through Hants Border are being asked to find an alternative route after a motorist struck a pole, knocking out power. At 1:48 p.m. on March 26, volunteers with the Hantsport Fire Department were called to Highway 1, between ...
Two Cumberland communities receive provincial funding to support health-care recruitment
Two communities in Cumberland County are receiving around $150,000 in federal funding to support newcomer health-care workers and their families. The Town of Amherst is receiving $81,250 through the Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment ...
Digby County man, 25, arrested for sexual offences against youths: RCMP
RCMP in Meteghan have arrested and charged a Salmon River man for sexual offences against youths and believe there may be more victims. On March 4, Mounties received word of child exploitation, starting an investigation where officers learned a ...
Dartmouth death ruled a homicide
A suspicious death in Dartmouth on Monday is being investigated as a homicide. Halifax Regional Police received a report at about 7:10 a.m. of a disturbance in an apartment building on Pinecrest Drive. Officers found a dead man inside the ...
Kings and West Hants court report: March 26, 2024
Conditional discharge for various offences Mitchell James Francis, 30, of Berwick, has been handed a conditional discharge with probation after pleading guilty to four charges. They include willfully obstructing two peace officers engaged in the ...