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Crystal English, Mike Basso, right, and Howard Mugridge are organizers of the annual motorcycle ride to remember their friend Brian Douma. The ride takes place on Kellys Mountain on Victoria Day, May 20. BARB SWEET/CAPE BRETON POST

For the love of Brian: Cape Breton friends stage annual ride to remember man killed on Kellys Mountain

Barb Sweet · Multimedia journalist |Updated a day ago |10 min read Premium content

Sporadically along any stretch of the Trans Canada Highway and other routes, roadside crosses mark lives lost, including a pair on Kellys Mountain near St. Anns lookoff.  Those two markers remember Brian Douma, a Sydney resident who died there on May ...

Clockwise from top left: Eva Dvorak, Patricia McQueen, Melissa Rehorek and Barbara Maclean have been linked to serial killer Gary Allen Srery, RCMP said on Friday, May 17, 2024. Composite image/courtesy Alberta RCMP

What we know so far about the serial killer's victims: 'If the person could only know of the grief he has caused'

Calgary Herald |Updated a day ago |3 min read Gallery Premium content

It may be decades since four Alberta women were murdered by a serial killer, but their stories still resonate today and deserve to be told. RCMP revealed Friday that serial killer Gary Allen Srery was indeed preying upon Alberta women in the ...

Halifax Regional Police have charged a man with weapons and drug offences following a threat incident in a Halifax restaurant on March 22.

Halifax youth support worker accused of sending sexually harassing text messages

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

Police in Halifax have charged a 51-year-old youth support worker for allegedly repetitively harassing a person through text messages. On Tuesday, officers received reports that a victim had received several sexually harassing text messages from an ...

Justin Andrew Gaul, 41, lost his job as a Halifax firefighter after he was charged with voyeurism for surreptitiously recording intimate videos of his common-law wife. Gaul, who pleaded guilty to the charge last December, received a conditional discharge with three months' probation Friday in Halifax provincial court.

Ex-Halifax firefighter gets conditional discharge for secretly recording intimate videos of wife

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

A former Halifax firefighter who hid a camera in his bedroom to record intimate videos of his common-law wife without her consent has been handed a conditional discharge with three years’ probation. Justin Andrew Gaul, 41, pleaded guilty in Halifax ...

Payton Williams, left, and Sam Williams kneel next to a memorial for their sister Talia Forrest outside the Sydney Justice Centre on Friday after Colin Tweedie was found guilty on three charges related to the death of Forrest, 10, who died after she was hit by an SUV driven by Tweedie on July 11, 2019. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

UPDATED: ‘Talia finally got her justice’: Cape Breton man found guilty in girl’s death

Chris Connors |Updated a day ago |7 min read Premium content

Tears of relief flowed and the words “justice” and “finally” were repeated as Talia Forrest’s family exited a Sydney courtroom Friday. Moments earlier, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Kevin Coady found Colin Hugh Tweedie guilty on all three charges ...

Ahmad Maher Al Marrach, 16, died April 22 after he was stabbed in a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre. Four teens are charged with second-degree murder.

Four teens plead not guilty to murdering Halifax boy, trial set for fall

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |3 min read

Four teens have pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the killing of a 16-year-old Halifax boy last month. Ahmad Maher Al Marrach, a student at Citadel High School, was fatally stabbed in a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre ...

The federal government's carbon tax kicked in on Monday. which raised gas and diesel prices by 3.8 and 4.7 cents per litre, respectively, at the pumps in Cape Breton. CONTRIBUTED

Gas, diesel prices slide once again in Cape Breton

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |1 min read Premium content

For the third straight week, fuel prices are lower than the week before at Cape Breton pumps. In the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board's weekly price adjustment, the price of regular self-serve gas slid by 3.8 cents per litre overnight. A litre ...

There were lots of smiles at the May 15 announcement of a Jumpstart Inclusive Multi Sport Court that will be constructed on the Mariners Centre property. Pictured are (l-r back row) Canadian Tire owner Darcy DeSutter, Yarmouth Municipal Warden Trevor Cunningham, Argyle Warden Danny Muise, Andrea Acheson with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities (front row, l-r) Kerry Muise who is helping with the fundraising efforts and Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood. TINA COMEAU

'No child will be left behind': Jumpstart Inclusive Multi Sport Court to be built at Mariners Centre in Yarmouth

Tina Comeau · Multi-media journalist |Updated a day ago |11 min read Premium content

YARMOUTH, NS – As a parent and a coach, Darcy DeSutter has seen first-hand the positive impacts that sports and recreation bring into the lives of children – not just when it comes to their physical health and activity, but when it comes to mental ...

Analyst Dan McTeague expects gas prices to drop about 15 cents per litre for gas and up to 28 cents a litre for diesel over the coming days. - Tim Krochak / File

N.S. gas prices edge down ahead of long weekend

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |1 min read

If you're out and about on the long weekend in Nova Scotia, it's going to cost you a little less to get gas. The cost of a litre of regular gas in Zone 1, which includes the Halifax area, dipped by 3.8 cents a litre to 175.6 cents overnight in this ...

Barry Albert, 47, of Bridgewater went missing in August 2022. His remains were found near an abandoned ball diamond in Springfield, Annapolis County, in October 2022, and his death was determined to have been a homicide.

Man facing murder accessory charge in Annapolis County gets bail

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 16, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

A Lunenburg County man accused of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the 2022 killing of Barry Albert in Annapolis County has been granted bail with the Crown’s consent. William Jordan Harris Zinck, 26, of Conquerall Mills was one of four ...

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