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Hearing from the electorate: Annapolis Royal, N.S., hosting meeting to discuss big projects
Councillors in Nova Scotia’s smallest town are looking for direction from taxpayers on how to proceed with expensive projects on the horizon. Annapolis Royal is hosting a public meeting for residents on May 13 at the Royal Canadian Legion to discuss ...
Annapolis Royal, N.S., mayor knows some tough decisions are coming with NSP grant in jeopardy
Annapolis Royal councillors were able to pass the budget without raising the tax rate for the 2024-25 fiscal year but some big decisions loom. Council passed its $2.8-million operating budget April 17. It sees the tax rates remain at $1.70 ...
Pallet shelter plan: A year late and 90 per cent short
Twenty tiny shelters are on the way to Kentville. In a couple of weeks, they’ll be up and ready for people to move in, according to Suzanne Ley, executive director of employment supports and income assistance at the Department of Community Services.
Poached elvers still getting exported despite DFO busts and closed season
Even as DFO has begun arresting illegal elver harvesters, the baby eels are still leaving Canadian airports under the federal government’s nose enroute to markets in Asia. Late Saturday night, Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers arrested five more ...
East Hants man pleads guilty to sexual interference, child porn charges
An East Hants man has pleaded guilty to three sex-related charges involving children. Colin Wesley Pynn, 45, of Five Mile River went on trial April 8 in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference, possessing child ...
Dalhousie-led study reveals biggest branded waste producers
A Dalhousie-led study has unveiled a link between plastic production and pollution. The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, was conducted by scientists from Dalhousie and 12 other post-secondary institutions in the U.S., Australia, the ...
Still no estimates on what greening N.S. grid will cost ratepayers and taxpayers
Getting off coal and hitting Nova Scotia’s target of generating 80 per cent of renewables by 2030 will be expensive for anyone who buys electricity or pays taxes here. But nobody knows how expensive. Neither Nova Scotia Power president Peter Gregg, ...
Two recent deaths near Portapique still not explained: ‘I know I keep my door locked’
The RCMP’s investigation into the discovery of two dead bodies in Bass River a week ago on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Nova Scotia’s mass shooting and just down the road from where the Portapique massacre began is drawing criticism for ...
Province invests in West Hants, N.S., water upgrades amid ‘unprecedented growth’
Provincial funding announced Tuesday will help West Hants not only keep up with its population growth but plan for the future. Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard was in Windsor April 23 to announce the province was providing about $3 million for a ...
Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges
A former Truro police officer has pleaded guilty in Dartmouth provincial court to two charges of voyeurism. JinHo Kim, 30, entered the guilty pleas Tuesday, when he appeared in court via a video link from Ontario. The charges involve two women who ...