Author Archives: Kevin Northup

Three trades and two losses on a busy weekend for the Yarmouth Mariners. It started with a 4-1 defeat to the last-place Valley Wildcats on home ice Friday. Yarmouth fired 56 shots on Wildcats goaltend...

Team Canada is off to a great start in Cape Breton. The Women's U18 hockey squad beat Switzerland 9-0 Saturday night in Membertou to open the world championship. Boylston's Kendall Doiron had a goal i...

Hockey is on at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. All events are going ahead as scheduled. This after a fire was quickly put out by Halifax firefighters Thursday afternoon. It was located on the roof of t...

A celebration of a re-opened bridge in Weymouth. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gates Lane bridge is happening Saturday at 2 p.m. The bridge opened to traffic in October, it closed in January, 2024...

The Yarmouth Mariners have two big home games this weekend. Friday night, they're hosting the Valley Wildcats, and on Sunday afternoon at 4 they've got Summerside in town. The Mariners are six points ...

A section of Highway 103 is closed. RCMP say the stretch between Exits 11 and 12 near Maitland will be closed for an extended period of time. It's due to a collision. Drivers can take a detour onto Hi...

It's time to finish Highway 101. That's the message from the Warden of the Municipality of Digby, Linda Gregory. She says the 25 kilometre stretch between Marshalltown and Weymouth features speeding d...

A fire is out at Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax. Halifax firefighters were called to the arena over the noon hour Thursday. The fire was on the roof of a corner of the building on Duke and Brun...

Two Nova Scotians are on Team Canada, in their home province. Jaylee MacKinnon of Clark's Harbour and Kendall Doiron of Boylston are playing in the U18 Women's World hockey championship in Cape Breton...

Recruiting teachers since the pandemic has been unlike anything seen in Nova Scotia since World War II. That's according to Deputy Education minister Tracey Barbrick, who says the student population h...