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Photo: The 2018 Seafest Royal Party (courtesy Courtney LeBlanc) 22 year old Olivia Fells is the 2018 Seafest Queen. Fells was awarded the crown at the Seafest Pageant at Th’YARC last night. She ...

The Warden of the Municipality of Yarmouth says they share a vision with Th’YARC. That vision is for the future use of the former Arcadia School building, of which the municipality and YARC offi...

After several rallies and impassioned letters, the South Shore has its midwifery program back. The program was suspended in early 2018 after one of the two positions fell vacant and the other midwife ...

A heavy police presence in Digby County on Tuesday resulted in the arrests of three men. The men were taken into custody after barricading themselves inside a residence in Weymouth Mills. This after a...

Ten new medical residency spaces in Dalhousie University's Family Medicine Residency Training Program have been created across the province, including one in Southwest Nova Scotia. That brings the tot...

The province is sending firefighters to aid Ontario and Quebec in controlling forest fires. A 20-person crew from the Department of Lands and Forestry will leave Halifax for Sudbury tomorrow. The crew...

The candidates vying to become the next provincial Progressive Conservative leader will be in Tusket tomorrow night. Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, John Lohr, Tim Houston, Cecil Clarke and Julie Chaisson ...

Yarmouth’s biggest festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Seafest officially begins today, with a full slate of events until Sunday. It all begins today with the Mayor’s Picnic, whi...

The Canadian Hurricane Centre says Tropical Storm Chris reached Hurricane Status last night around supper time and continues to track toward Atlantic Canada. But there’s some good news for Nova ...

Another emergency department closure at Roseway Hospital in Shelburne. The department is closed today until 7pm. The reason, a lack of physician availability. The Nova Scotia Health Authority says tho...