Author Archives: Kevin Northup

School support workers return to class today in the Annapolis Valley. Members of union Local 73 ratified a new agreement with the Regional Centre for Education yesterday. The agreement addresses wage ...

Nova Scotia's Jeopardy! champion is back tonight. Mattea Roach returns for the Tournament of Champions. The 24-year old won 23 games in a row earlier this year, and won over 560-thousand dollars. She ...

About 40 Digby residents helped a stranded pod of dolphins. Last Friday afternoon, a report came in to the Marine Animal Response Society that 16 dolphins were stuck in the mud near Joggins at low-tid...

The Sipekne'katik First Nation elected their first female chief. Michelle Glasgow won a tightly contested race by 18 votes on November 2nd She beat out former chief Mike Sack, who came in third behind...

It looks like some school support workers will soon be back in the classroom. The local union that represents the workers says a tentative agreement has been reached with the Annapolis Valley Regional...

There are new COVID deaths in Nova Scotia, but not from the latest reporting period. The province has reported 14 deaths under the category: 'New Deaths from Previous Reporting Periods.' No word on wh...

Hope you filled up your gas tank yesterday. The price of regular jumped over five cents overnight. It's now over $1.80 a litre across the province this morning. Diesel increased by seven cents, with t...

Striking educational support workers in the Valley have been invited back to the table. Local 73 of the NSGEU says they received an invitation from a conciliator, along with the Annapolis Valley Regio...

A 28-year old man shot in Florence, Cape Breton last week has died. Another man is now charged with first-degree murder, according to Cape Breton Regional Police. Twenty-four year old Brandon Tyler Ma...

A significant theft of emergency equipment from a Pictou County fire department. The break-in happened sometime last week at the Barneys River Volunteer department, according to RCMP. Over $35,000 wor...