Port Hawkesbury News

Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries a gene that makes it likely she will develop breast cancer.

A 28-year-old Port Hawkesbury, N.S., man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a brutal sexual assault on a young woman.

It may come as a surprise, but a noted Canadian economist is predicting that growth in Nova Scotia's export growth will lead the country this year and in 2014.

Construction is complete on the $183-million biomass power plant at Point Tupper, N.S., reports the Chronicle Herald newspaper.

On May 2 at almost 1 a.m., RCMP Officers from Waycobah and Port Hawkesbury conducted a traffic stop on Highway 105, Melford.

Left, Jason MacLean, Blair Hill, Suzanne MacNeil and Pat MacKinnon were guest speakers at the Port Hawkesbury CEP Union Hall on Monday night.

Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac will perform in the Shannon Studio at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is part of the Bringin' it Home concert series and is being presented by Music Nova Scotia, the town of Port Hawkesbury, and 101.5 the Hawk.

It took six years to become a reality and three years of dedicated work to bring it all together so it was fitting that the rain held off until the very end of the dedication services for the Port Hawkesbury Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday.

Allan MacMaster the MLA for Inverness County wants the same capital works funding formula put forward by the Cape Breton Regional Municipality applied to his region.

At the announcement were Deputy Chief Jim Pyke, Yvon Samson, Deputy Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Ann Carter, M.P. Peter Mackay and Jacintha Samson-Sullivan The Honourable Peter MacKay, minister of National Defense and regional minister for Nova Scotia, brought infrastructure money to the Strait Area on Sunday.

Advocates for the victims in the Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh case are calling for a public inquiry into the 18-year legal saga that ended Monday with a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh heads from Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Halifax in 2010.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the latest round of legal arguments in the Fenwick MacIntosh case on Monday.