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Nova Scotia’s Auditor General says Tri County Regional School Board students are still under performing in literacy and numeracy. Michael Pickup released his February 2017 report Wednesday sayin...

What started out as a family game has turned into a book. Nine-year-old Breton Hayden and her Dad Tyler have co-authored, "Coffee Talk: Project Special Day". It contains ideas on how to find the fun i...

A number of high school sports will not have regional or provincial championships this year. This is due to work-to-rule job action by Nova Scotia teachers forcing athletics to the sidelines. Nova Sco...

What's a few trillion miles between neighbours? NASA has discovered seven Earth-size planets outside of our solar system. Around a nearby, cold, small star we found 7 rocky Earth-size planets, all of ...

The president of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union local in Yarmouth expects an influx of members anxious to join a provincial committee struck to deal with classroom issues. One day after the government...

A Yarmouth program matching at-risk youth with families has not been successful. In 2015, Executive Director of SHYFT Youth Services Adam Dolliver created the ‘Host Family Program.’ The id...

A third straight Moncton Over 35 hockey tournament win for the Yarmouth Phoenix. The group with an average age of 41 defeated a team from Moncton on the weekend 5-3. Jared Purdy led Yarmouth with a ha...

Midwives Needed In Yarmouth And Sydney Say Some. Volunteers are being sought to take part in a study of women’s experiences of maternity care in the Yarmouth area. The Dalhousie Social Work Midw...

A 16-month contract dispute between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union and provincial government is over. The Liberals used their majority government to pass Bill 75 by a vote of 33 to 17, ending work-to-...

The large snowfall last week left many people wondering why it took so long to have their roads plowed. Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Area Manager Glen Strang says the storm was exceptiona...