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Halifax regional police are seen parked in front of Halifax West High School in Halifax Monday April 29, 2024.

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New threats cause three more school closures in HRM; youth arrested in Monday case

There were more early dismissals in Halifax County schools after threats were found Tuesday. Halifax Regional Centre for Education spokeswoman Lindsey Bunin said in an email that Millwood High School in Middle Sackville, Park West School in Halifax ...

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New Brunswick man elects jury trial on Dal Homecoming stabbing charges

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A preliminary inquiry will be held in Halifax provincial court in July 2025 for a young man from Moncton, N.B, who faces three charges from an October 2022 stabbing during an unsanctioned Dalhousie University Homecoming gathering of students.

Province to pay first two years of operations costs at CBU medical school

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Assault charge against former Halifax Alehouse bouncers dismissed

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Police release name, photo of suspect in search for armed man in Gaston Road area of Dartmouth

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Police presence ended at Provincial Building in Sydney

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Halifax Regional Police officers seized some cocaine during a traffic stop in the 2100 block of Robie Street on Monday. - File

Four young men charged in Halifax robbery, handgun recovered

SaltWire Network |Updated 11 hours ago |1 min read

Four young men were scheduled to appear in provincial court Tuesday to face robbery and weapons charges after an incident at the corner of Harvard and Lawrence streets in Halifax on Monday night. Halifax police, who were called to the robbery at 8:10 ...

The Municipality of Chester is receiving $1 million in funding from Nova Scotia to demolish and replace the Gold River Bridge. - Photo by Mykola Swarnyk / Wiki Commons

Nova Scotia provides $2.3 million for bridge replacement work in St. Margaret's Bay, Municipality of Chester

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 23 hours ago |2 min read

Two construction projects aim to replace bridges in the St. Margarets Bay-Chester area are receiving a combined $2.3 million from Nova Scotia. St. Margaret's Bay Area Rails to Trails Association is getting more than $1.3 million to swap out the ...

Colette Deveaux’s mother Debbie Ann Hutchinson went missing on Easter weekend in 2017. Seven years later, with no body discovered and no arrests made, Deveaux said she constantly wonders what happened to her mother — and what might happen to someone else. “I spend every day worried about my partner, or my friends, or my family, wondering ‘When is this going to happen again? Who's next?’ And that's not fair.” Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

'Who's next?’: Daughter of murdered Cape Breton woman still lives in fear

Christopher Connors · Multimedia journalist |Updated 7 hours ago |8 min read

The daughter of a murdered Sydney woman says she still lives in fear. Colette Deveaux’s mother Debbie Ann Hutchinson was last seen in person on April 14, 2017, when she went to brunch with her brother on Good Friday. The next day, she was captured on ...

Karen Borgal of New Waterford says she found out her house shifted during post-tropical storm Fiona. She's since repaired the cracks but could not get insurance or disaster relief help for the foundation repairs. BARB SWEET/CAPE BRETON POST

UPDATED: Fiona claim rejected: Cape Breton woman turned down for house damages

Barb Sweet · Multimedia journalist |Updated 7 hours ago |11 min read

Karen Borgal thought she had a few small cosmetic issues — a bit of missing siding, a lost shingle tab and a broken window — to deal with in the aftermath of post-tropical storm Fiona in September 2022 until she heard a disturbing sound. “So in the ...

Acquittal entered on sex offences; Cape Breton court report for April 29, 2024

SaltWire Network |Updated 11 hours ago |3 min read

A Sydney Mines man has been acquitted on two sex offences. Ryan Paul Matheson, 38, was charged with sexual assault and sexual interference that were alleged to have occurred between June and November 2020. Provincial court Judge Dan MacRury issued ...

Elder Viola Christmas crosses herself as she starts the opening prayer at the ceremony held on Red Dress Day, also known as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit people, held in Membertou last year. It took place at the Red Dress Commemorative Park, located on the front lawn of the Cape Breton Regional Police station in Membertou, and it was the first event held at the park since it opened last year. NICOLE SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON POST

Red Dress Day events planned for Cape Breton

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated a day ago |3 min read

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — As the nation prepares to commemorate the National Day for Awareness of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Sunday, communities across Cape Breton are rallying together to honour and remember those impacted by the ...

Peter Guy Joseph Monteith is led to a sheriff’s van Monday after appearing in Dartmouth provincial court on bank robbery charges Nov. 4, 2019.

Man admits fleeing from police in stolen vehicle after Dartmouth stabbing

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

A man has admitted stealing a motor vehicle and fleeing from police after a stabbing at a Dartmouth motel last December. Peter Guy Joseph Monteith, 47, of no fixed address was supposed to have a preliminary inquiry in Dartmouth provincial court last ...

Officers with the Halifax regional police forensics unit, begin to process the scene inside a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre in Halifax Monday April 22, 2024.

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Third teen charged in Citadel High School student homicide

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |2 min read

A third teenager has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Ahmad Maher Al Marrach, 16. Halifax Regional Police issued a news release Monday afternoon saying that a 16-year-old had been arrested earlier in the day. The teenager is one ...

The Nova Scotia Community College's Sydney Waterfront Campus will open a new child-care centre this fall as part of a new partnership between the NSCC and YMCA of Cape Breton, announced on Monday. The centre will be operated by the YMCA, once the campus opens in September. CAPE BRETON POST FILE

NSCC, YMCA of Cape Breton, team up for new child-care centre at Sydney Waterfront campus

Ian Nathanson · Multimedia journalist |Updated a day ago |2 min read

The Nova Scotia Community College’s Sydney Waterfront Campus will house a new child-care centre, thanks to some provincial funding help announced on Monday. An agreement between the YMCA of Cape Breton and the NSCC will provide 50 child-care spaces ...

Work crews have begun installing a new sewer line crossing Churchill Drive in Membertou, near Big Noel Ekel and Membertou Place. Work is expected to continue until Friday. A detour route around the construction area has been implemented via Membertou Street by way of Tupsi Drive and Maillard Street. MITCHELL FERGUSON/CAPE BRETON POST

IN PHOTO: Detour in place as sewer upgrades begin in Membertou

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated a day ago |2 min read

MEMBERTOU — Road construction detours have begun on Churchill Drive in Membertou, near Big Noel Ekel and Membertou Place until May 3 to facilitate the installation of a new trunk main sewer line. Motorists and residents are advised of detours along ...