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• Highland Consolidated students given an hour Friday...
  WESTVILLE – Students will return to the troubled Highland Consolidated Middle School Friday but only for an hour, stated a release issued late ...
• Bubbles gets nod as Canada's finalist in Race for...
  NEW GLASGOW – A Thorburn native’s quest to get to space has taken a giant leap. Mike Smith, otherwise known as the character Bubbles from the ...
• Highland Consolidated students to finish year in new...
  WESTVILLE – Grade 7 and 8 students who attend Westville's Highland Consolidated Middle School will have the rest of the week off while the school ...
• Northern Pulp given until November to install new...
  ABERCROMBIE POINT – Northern Pulp has been given a directive to install new air pollution equipment by November by the Environment Department. An ...
• Woman escapes house fire in St. Paul, Pictou County
  ST. PAUL, Pictou Co. – A woman, her mother and her three cats and one dog were safe after an electrical fire broke out in her bungalow on East ...
• Workers remove 'small amounts' of mould at Westville...
  WESTVILLE – Work is being done to remove small amounts of mould that have been identified in three areas of Highland Consolidated Middle ...
• Pictou County's Go Clean Get Green litter pick up...
  NEW GLASGOW - The Pictou County Go Clean Get Green Community Litter Pick up campaign will host its official kick off on Wednesday
• Highway 104 near Antigonish closure due to collision
  ANTIGONISH – RCMP are currently on the scene of a single-vehicle collision on Highway 104 near Linwood. Traffic is currently being ...
• New Glasgow left high and dry for latest cruise ship...
  NEW GLASGOW – When the first cruise ship docks in Pictou County this fall, the tourists on board won’t be going on an excursion to New Glasgow, ...
• Chignecto Central School Board cuts library staff
  NEW GLASGOW – Library staff within the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board were told Thursday that their services are no longer needed after ...
• Westville school being searched for odour problems
  WESTVILLE – The Department of Labour is currently at Highland Consolidated School today to determine what is causing an odour in the ...
• Pictou man enters not guilty pleas on child porn...
  PICTOU – A Pictou man accused of possessing, accessing and making child pornography available has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The man, who ...
• New Glasgow Jubilee line-up to be released tonight
  NEW GLASGOW – ECMA and Juno awards winners are expected to headline this year's New Glasgow Riverfront Jubilee in August. Watch ngnews.ca at 7 ...
• Pictou County home suffers smoke damage from...
  LYONS BROOK – Scotsburn and Caribou firefighters responded to a call Tuesday afternoon to a home in Lyons Brook. A fire department spokesman ...
• New Glasgow gets into national water week with tours...
• RCMP rule out need for four-way stop to control...
  PICTOU – There will not be a four-way stop on Wellington Street. Andrew Joyce with the Pictou County RCMP’s traffic authority said the RCMP ...
• Pictou contacting county with governance study proposal
  PICTOU – The Town of Pictou is preparing to extend an olive branch to the county in hopes of giving a governance study another try, but on a ...
• New Glasgow area ranks last in list of top 190...
  NEW GLASGOW – According to Moneysense Magazine, New Glasgow ranks last on their annual list of Best Places to Live in Canada. New Glasgow, which ...
• Veterans no longer having to pay New Glasgow parking...
  NEW GLASGOW – New Glasgow council is honouring veterans in the county by waiving parking meter fees for anyone with a veteran’s license plate. ...
• Business as usual at New Glasgow Zellers store
  NEW GLASGOW – It’s business as usually at Zellers in New Glasgow. Tiffany Bourre, external communication manager for theHudson Bay Company, ...
• Dr. Seuss focus of special library celebration
  PICTOU – Children visiting the Pictou Library today were treated to some of the classics in literature – children's literature. Green Eggs and ...
• Witness testifies he wants no part in Antigonish...
  PICTOU – Johnny Borden continued testifying Friday morning saying he wanted no part of the second-degree murder trial against Robert Lamb. When ...
• New Glasgow youths arrested after caught tipping...
  NEW GLASGOW – Two young people were arrested Friday after police caught them red-handed tipping over headstones in the Lorne Street Cemetery.
• Maritime Steel owner, workers gets boost of support...
  NEW GLASGOW – The operator and workers at Maritime Steel are receiving some much needed support from the local business chamber. The ...
• Junior high students show off their projects at the...
  Sadie Pitts holds two bird feeders, painted in different colours, she made for a science experiment. Pitts examined what colours would attract ...
• Sobeys president, CEO retiring this year, company...
  STELLARTON – Sobeys president and CEO Bill McEwan will be retiring later this year. McEwan’s desire to retire stems from a continuing ...
• Shubie Sam says spring is on its way
  SHUBENACADIE – Shubenacadie Sam says, despite the recent snow across the province, Nova Scotians will soon be enjoying spring. The groundhog ...
• Country music legend George Jones to perform at New...
  New Glasgow – Country music legend George Jones is coming to the John Brother MacDonald Stadium May 19, 2012. JBM Stadium manager Mike Adams ...
• False alarm brings Pictou firefighters to former...
  PICTOU – Pictou firefighters responded to an early morning call today at the former Stella Maris Convent which had recently been transformed ...
• Pictou County bridge collapses after snowplow...
  CARIBOU – Weir's Bridge on Shore Road in Caribou River collapsed yesterday when a Department of Transportation snowplow was travelling across it. ...