Newsroom

A man has been arrested after barricading himself in a trailer at a campground in Lunenburg. Details are few at this time, but RCMP say it happened this afternoon at Little Lake Campground and that the man was armed. Residents of the campground were evacuated as a precaution. Update, 3:23 p.m. Lunenburg County District...

Repairs are coming to a damaged road on the Eastern Shore in 2025. A 500-metre section of Route 207 along Lawrencetown Beach has taken a beating from the Atlantic Ocean during storms. The province is spending over a million dollars to build a new road away from the coast, that will be matched by the feds. Eastern Shore...

A site has been selected for the new Roseway Manor. The nearly 10-acre lot is located in the Town of Shelburne, accessible off King Street backing onto Hillcrest Academy and the EHS depot. Shelburne Mayor Harold Locke says the new, larger nursing home is great for both the town and municipality. "We have been work...

On December 6th, the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg took a significant step by officially declaring gender-based violence (GBV) as an epidemic. This announcement aligns with the recent statement from the Federal Justice Minister on August 14th, where he referred to GBV as an epidemic in response to a coroner...

Queens residents are set to receive compensation following a summer boil water advisory. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board greenlit a request for reimbursement from water customers in the Region of Queens, enduring a three-month boil-water order. The municipality sought a 70% rate reduction for one quarter of th...

The Town of Lunenburg is pausing the process of renaming Cornwallis Street to Queen Street which was approved by a 4-3 vote in late November. The original goal of changing Cornwallis Street was to stop honoring figures with troubled colonial legacies (in this case stemming from the controversy over Edward Cornwallis's ...

The head of a local fishing association says the feds aren't enforcing the law on out-of-season lobster fishing. Colin Sproul of the Unified Fisheries Conservation Alliance spoke in Ottawa about illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. He told the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans they've been trying to ad...

The Kingsburg Coastal Conservancy (KCC) is rallying Nova Scotians to take immediate action against a proposed 15-year lease for rockweed harvesting along the Lunenburg County coastline. The call to action involves submitting formal objections to the Fisheries Minister by Wednesday, December 6, the deadline set seven da...

Former Member of Parliament for South Shore-St. Margarets, Bernadette Jordan, has been appointed as Canada's Consul General in Boston, succeeding Rodger Cuzner, a former Nova Scotia Liberal MP who recently took on a Senate role. Jordan, who served in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, entered politics in 2015 and...

Nikki Doucet, a former St. Francis Xavier University point guard hailing from Liverpool, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NewCo, an independent organization set to manage England's Women's Super League and the second-tier Women's Championship starting from the 2024-25 season. With an illustrio...