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Nova Scotia's minister of community services, Denise Peterson-Rafuse, says her government is committed to revamping the welfare system, which will include better income support.

Tickets for the 2010 East Coast Music Awards, Festival and Conference taking place March 4-7 in Cape Breton, are now on sale.

An ancient international order dating back over four centuries is being commemorated by Canadian crew members in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race in Australia this Christmas.

When the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Cape Breton's bid to continue its legal fight against the Nova Scotia government over equalization this week, I reflected on a couple of columns I wrote two years ago.

Nine Cape Bretoners travelled to the Agridome to take part in the Nova Scotia Amateur Boxing Championships in front of a crowd of about 800.

Firefighters in Sydney, N.S., are trying to extinguish a proposal to fold three fire halls into one.

With Helen Morrison, domestic violence case co-ordinator with the Cape Breton Regional Police, left, and Sgt.

A new wave of Cape Breton artists will lead the way when the 2010 East Coast Music Awards, Festival and Conference is staged on the island in just three months.

Just one month after making her American recording debut, Serena Ryder is back home in Canada for a few shows before taking a break from the road for the holidays.

Initiative introduced to attract people to Cape Breton Did you know that in 2006 the population of Cape Breton Island stood at 142,300 and that it numbered 105,930 in Cape Breton County? In 1989, when I retired here, the county's population stood at 120,000. Kevin Gibson, an economist with Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation, says that if the ...

Four American martens were released into the Cape Breton wilderness Wednesday, after being blessed by a Mi'kmaq elder.

The Salvation Army considers its annual Christmas concerts an important opportunity to thank the communities that support them throughout the year.

The main event of the Francis Morrison Memorial Night of Boxing on Saturday at Centre 200 saw Carl Campbell of the Sydney Boxing Club win a decision over Brandon Blackquire of Charlottetown in a 120-pound bout.

In anticipation of large crowds expected to witness the Olympic flame's crossing of Cape Breton, Monday several traffic adjustments will be made across the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

The Cape Breton District Health Authority expects to receive more doses of the H1N1 vaccine this week.

A look at some concerts scheduled in the days ahead : New Brunswick Nov. 8 - Slayer and Megadeth with Machine Head and Suicide Silence, Moncton, Coliseum.

Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq leaders are demanding the NDP government remove one of the Justice Department's most senior lawyers from any case involving First Nations.

Clinics in Cape Breton giving H1N1 flu shots were vaccinating only people at highest risk Monday: pregnant women, people living in First Nations communities, children from six months to 59 months of age, and health-care workers providing direct care.

Middleton Baptist Church, 1-8 p.m. Tuesday - Bridgetown Legion, 1-8 p.m.; Glooscap Elementary School, Canning, 1-8 p.m. Cape Breton Health Monday - Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, Sydney, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Bay St.

Cape Breton University held its fall convocation Saturday at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, with four honorary degrees handed out by CBU chancellor Annette Verschuren.