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The Cape Breton Post "Why did you take a picture of your feet?" It was a valid question and the woman asking it had obviously seen me standing at the end of the 100-foot wide bridge of the Atlantic Vision, the newest ship to operate on the Gulf ferry service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques.

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SYDNEY, N.S. a ' The trial of a Canadian soldier alleged to have shot and killed 25-year-old Cpl.

A judge has convicted two anti-sealing activists of coming too close to a hunt without a permit off Cape Breton.

Two anti-sealing activists have been found guilty of interfering with Canada's East Coast seal hunt in waters off northern Cape Breton last year.

Cpl. Matthew Wilcox is charged with manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, and negligent performance of duty in the death of a colleague in Afghanistan.

Cape Breton Regional Police responded to an assault Sunday night in Membertou. At approximately 8:30 p.m., police along with a canine unit arrived at a residence on L'Nu Avenue off Tupsi Drive in Membertou after a male was apparently stabbed in the neck.

A Cape Breton company has once again made Progress Magazine's annual listing of Atlantic Canada's 25 best places to work.

SYDNEY, N.S.One of the first soldiers to come to the aid of a Canadian reservist shot in the chest in March 2007 says he remembers Cpl.

A planned cleanup of the tar ponds in Sydney, N.S., has taken a big step forward with money finally coming to begin work on the project.

Nova Scotia Power introduced a Sydney audience Thursday to the merits of burning natural products like wood waste, fish oil and hay.

Michael MacDonald SYDNEY, N.S. A Canadian soldier charged with fatally shooting a fellow reservist in Afghanistan was playing some sort of game with a loaded weapon when the firearm went off and killed his comrade, the lead prosecutor in a court martial told a military panel Thursday.

Cpl. Matthew Wilcox of Glace Bay, N.S., heads to his court martial in Sydney, N.S. on Tuesday.

Cpl. Matthew Wilcox of Glace Bay, N.S., heads to his court martial in Sydney, N.S. on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.

It rained cats and dogs Monday in Sydney, with the weather station at Sydney Airport recording nearly 65 millimetres of rain, handily breaking the previous one-day record rainfall of 23 millimetres in 1958.

Nova Scotians can measure the quality of the air they breathe and any associated health risks.

For the second time in a matter of years an Amherst lawyer has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.

You are all aware of the long string of high quality female singers who have sprung from the salt air of Atlantic Canada over the years.

Sydney airport will be named J.A.D. McCurdy Sydney Airport in honour of the Cape Breton aviation pioneer, the Sydney Airport Authority announced during a reception for the Silver Dart Legacy Project, Wednesday.

A New Glasgow paving company is reeling from the shock of loosing two staff members over the weekend.