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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 ...
Dust-up at a N.S. hospital: 'It was their rules and not the law and she would not be wearing a mask'
She walked into the Liverpool hospital for a doctor’s appointment and refused to don a mask. It was mid-morning on July 10, 2023, when a COVID-19 screener at the Queens General Hospital called 911 to report the woman had shot video of her with a ...
Veteran Farm Project in Sweets Corner, N.S. gets financial boost to rebuild after storm damage
Jessica Miller’s enthusiasm is infectious as she rattles off a list of to-dos at her farm property in Hants County. The retired sergeant, who served as a medic in the Canadian Armed Forces, can’t wait to begin repairing and transforming the site in ...