Port Hawkesbury News

One witness speaking at Tuesday's preliminary inquiry in Port Hawkesbury provincial court was all it took for lawyer Nash Brogan to commit to a trial for second-degree murder on behalf of his client, Dwayne Samson.

Twenty-one years ago, a Cape Breton man disappeared without a trace. Now, a documentary filmmaker wants to unravel the mystery of what happened to him.

Cape Breton's newest Supreme Court justice will be officially sworn in Wednesday during a ceremony at the Sydney Justice Centre.

More than $500-million in public money has been approved to go to some of Nova Scotia's major employers, such as Irving Shipbuilding and the Pacific West Commercial paper mill, through a cabinet-controlled business loans program that is poorly managed and lacks monitoring and accountability, the province's auditor general said Wednesday.

Karen Mudge will be on hand at the Olde Tyme Christmas event to tell her stories of working as a nurse in the Northwest Territories and to talk about her Inuit art collection.

As you know from last week's column, Tim and I made the trip down and back to Calgary last week and on the way back we popped into Red Deer for the first time.

A Cape Breton Mountie has been charged with impaired driving after a single-vehicle crash on Sept.

Members of Canadian Forces Special Operations JTF2 unit storm a ship during an exercise called Operation Nanook off the shores of Churchill, Man.

Due to a high demand for tickets, a second "Tis The Season 7 " show has been added at the Savoy Theatre.

Along with a wide range of books by Cape Breton writers, this year's catalogue celebrates the year of the Cape Breton short story.

Photo credit: Tom Sandler. Writer Lynn Coady made Cape Breton proud once again with her win of the Giller Prize last week, Canada's most prestigious prize for literature.

Evelyn Peters said she was inspired by a stack of old letters she found in the attic of her husband's family home.

Cape Bretoners beg to differ. She does live in Edmonton now. The 43-year-old left Port Hawkesbury after high school and has moved around Canada ever since.