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Major infrastructure work will be carried out the busy Yarmouth intersection of Main, Vancouver and Chestnut streets from May to September, which will lead to detours and traffic delays. TINA COMEAU

Detours and delays coming as work gets underway at busy Yarmouth intersection

Contributed |Updated 20 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

An underground infrastructure project will soon be getting underway at the intersection of Main, Chestnut and Vancouver streets in Yarmouth. The project involves excavation of the intersection to replace critical infrastructure that has reached the ...

Police said the couple became stranded approximately 45 km into the Highlands before 4 p.m. on Saturday. File

Guysborough County man charged with child pornography offences

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 20 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

A 36-year-old Boylston, Guysborough County man has been charged with child pornography offences after an investigation by the RCMP’s provincial internet child exploitation unit. Police say they were directed to a home on Antigonish Guysborough Road ...

Annapolis Royal Mayor Amery Boyer reviews the flood risk assessment and adaptations concept report written by the Atlantic Infrastructure Management Network.  
Jason Malloy

Hearing from the electorate: Annapolis Royal, N.S., hosting meeting to discuss big projects

Jason Malloy · Lead editor Annapolis Valley Register |Updated 23 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Town hall in Annapolis Royal is located St. George Street.

Annapolis Royal, N.S., mayor knows some tough decisions are coming with NSP grant in jeopardy

Jason Malloy · Lead editor Annapolis Valley Register |Updated 22 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

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 shelters are being set up outside Beacon House in Lower Sackville on Tuesday, February 6, 2024.

Pallet shelter plan: A year late and 90 per cent short

Andrew Rankin · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

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.

Bruce MacKinnon cartoon Feb. 16, 2024

Poached elvers still getting exported despite DFO busts and closed season

Aaron Beswick · Reporter |Updated 22 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Carlos Ayapal Gonzalez Moraga, 38, of Enfield was sentenced Thursday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference and making child pornography. Justice Jeffrey Hunt accepted a joint recommendation from lawyers for a 27-month prison term.

East Hants man pleads guilty to sexual interference, child porn charges

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

Discarded plastic containers litter sone brush in north-end Dartmouth Wednesday April 24,2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Dalhousie-led study reveals biggest branded waste producers

Kaitlyn MacNeill |Updated 16 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

A lobster fishing boat steams out of Pubnico Harbour past the Pubnico Point wind farm. Kathy Johnson photo

Still no estimates on what greening N.S. grid will cost ratepayers and taxpayers

Aaron Beswick · Reporter |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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, ...

The Bass River Lighthouse surrounded by fog. The wooden, pepper-shaker-style tower was built in 1907. It is no longer operational and is privately owned.

Two recent deaths near Portapique still not explained: ‘I know I keep my door locked’

Chris Lambie · Lead editor – enterprise |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

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