Pictou, Canada News

A Pictou County resident and former premier of Nova Scotia is among the latest list of those being named to the Order of Canada.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Traffic accident resulting in charges Fifty-six-year-old Ann Marshall of Pictou, Nova Scotia was involved in a motor vehicle collision yesterday at 12:52 p.m. on Bay Street at Brock Street.

Central Nova MP and Defence Minister Peter MacKay has spoken positively about 2009 and expressed optimism for 2010.

Since the opening of Confederation Bridge, many people have felt the Wood Islands-Caribou ferry service has been living on borrowed time.

The Pictou County Health Authority is welcoming a new doctor to the area. The Clinician Assessment for Practice Program has chosen Dr.

The threat of a strike has the Pictou County Health Authority scaling back health services in the new year.

Four communities in the province will welcome new doctors in the new year. "We are currently finalizing four-year contracts with four new family doctors under the very successful Clinician Assessment for Practice Program," said Health Minister Maureen MacDonald, today, Dec.

PRDC executive director Gerald Gabriel outlines the benefits of a correctional facility in Pictou County With him is facilitator Michelle Ferris.

A public ceremony to mark the rededication of the historic New Glasgow town bell will take place Friday at 7 p.m.at its new location at the corner of Archimedes and Dalhousie Streets, across from the New Glasgow Library.

Mark Hamilton, left, and CUPW local vice-president Doris Snell picketed in front of the Pictou Post Office Dec.

Bluesman Garrett Mason played the White Tail Pub and Grill in Westville Dec. 12. The White Tail Pub and Grill is packed with excited blues fans.

What looked inevitable back in the summer of 2007 has turned out to be so, although it's taken 2 12 years to declare that the provincial government will take over child welfare services in most of Cape Breton.

A panel discussion at the workshop included New Glasgow deputy police chief Eric MacNeil, left, legal aid lawyer Shauna Hoyte and Mary Nicholas, representing the First Nations Community.

Police in Trenton, N.S., say a car containing a man's body was found in a wooded area off Laggan Road in Pictou County on Friday.

Search-and-rescue teams are calling the recovery of James Delorey a successful search with a heartbreaking outcome.

Environment Canada has issued weather warnings for most of Nova Scotia. Colchester County , Pictou County and Antigonish County are all under snowfall warnings, with close to 15 centimetres expected.

If you don't have the holiday spirit yet, the Town of Pictou will get you there in a hurry.

Sheltering Forests Campaign The Friends of Redtail Society has reached an agreement to extend the timeframe to raise money for its Sheltering Forests Campaign until Dec.

TRURO There is a movement afoot to try to bring a provincial jail to Colchester County, while one local politician suggests it's too late.

HALIFAX Neither Amherst nor Springhill will be the home of a new 100-cell correctional centre for northern Nova Scotia.