HALIFAX — A Conservative member of the Nova Scotia legislature who apologized last week for spending nearly $8,000 on a generator also charged taxpayers over $3,000 for the purchase and insta... (more)3:54 PM
Baxter Trucking unloads soil over a dyke on the Amherst marsh on Friday. Ducks Unlimited has spent several thousand dollars repairing and raising the 4,000-foot-long dyke on the marsh. Darrell Cole – Amherst Daily News
AMHERST – Ducks Unlimited is spending several thousand dollars to fix one of its largest dykes in the Amherst area.
Work began early last week on raising the level of the dyke several ... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
JOGGINS – Cumberland County residents who cut their own firewood from provincial land will no longer be able to after this month.
The Department of Natural Resources is ceasing issue o... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives have wrapped up their annual general meeting in Halifax.
It’s the first time the party has gathered since last June’... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
IQALUIT, Nunavut — It seems everyone in this Arctic community was trying to put the issue of seals in front of the European delegation at the G7 finance ministers meeting.
But regardle... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — An explosion blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers.
AMHERST – The Ramblers are hanging on to that final playoff berth in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League’s Bent Division.
Amherst hit the road for a pair of contests, winning 4-3... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
LOS ANGELES — A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the box office, livening up typically slow times at theatres over Super Bowl weekend.
Released by Sony&rsquo... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
Mullah Omar, despite what proponents of a negotiated peace in Afghanistan may say, is not a reasonable man. The Taliban leader, who was ousted as president of Afghanistan by the American invasion i... (more)07/02/10 11:04 PM
WASHINGTON — Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker.
The company has sought to sow good will and wi... (more)9:19 AM
Far less high-profile than its Lithuanian great sister – Vilnius was the European Capital of Culture in 2009 – Estonia is doubtlessly the most discreet of the three Ba... (more)29/01/10 8:29 PM
