The Spectator

It’s hard to imagine a farewell tribute more fit for one of Nova Scotia’s longest-serving  premiers. The celebration of life for John Buchanan on Friday featured a rendition of his personal anthem, Out on the Mira, a fiddle tune ...

SYDNEY — The Mi’kmaw Chiefs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland have removed Morley Googoo as regional chief. The organization held a special meeting Friday, which was called in response to events that have occurred ...

There are changes in the air at the Sydney airport.  There are also concerns. “We are always concerned whenever we lost a service or see the number of flight frequencies reduced,” said Mike MacKinnon, CEO of the J.A. Douglas ...

RCMP say remains were found last weekend in Inverness County. The remains were located on Sunday around 11 a.m. along Pig Cove Wharf in Little Judique. RCMP media spokesperson Cpl. Jennifer Clarke told the Cape Breton Post, via email Friday, ...

A 24-year-old man is facing multiple charges in relation to a Halifax provincial courthouse assault that left a city police officer with non-life threatening injuries. Mahmoud Ahmed Altawil, 24, has been charged with one count of aggravated ...

The NDP’s health critic says elective surgeries were cancelled at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital this week because of a lack of beds, while beds were empty at the Glace Bay hospital due to a lack of doctors. Cape Breton Centre MP Tammy ...

A new preliminary hearing date has been set for an Eskasoni man charged with second-degree murder. Kirk Daniel Gould, 29, is charged in connection with the March 21 beating death of 33-year-old Harry Lafford Jr. Also charged with the same offence ...

A woman has died in an accident involving an ATV. On Oct. 10 at 8:35 p.m. Guysborough District RCMP responded to a call of an overturned ATV on Amos Gillies Rd. When police arrived on scene they found a woman had been pinned by the ATV which had ...

Nova Scotia has taken the first step toward regulating the massage therapy profession.   Under the proposed Massage Therapist Titles Protection Act, anyone who wants to use the titles massage therapist, registered massage therapist or ...

The advance poll for the 2019 federal election opened Friday and will remain open on Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. each day.  Election Day is Oct. 21.  To vote, you must be a Canadian citizen and at least 18 ...