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Photos from a previous Lobster Bash in Digby. KARLA KELLY PHOTO/LOBSTER BASH FACEBOOK PAGE

A lobster-loving line-up: Digby's 2019 Lobster Festival comes ashore ...

A unique house building project by JD Composites Inc. The house in Meteghan River, Digby County, was built using recycled plastic bottles.

IN DEPTH: The Ultimate recycling project in Nova Scotia: Meteghan ...

Megan Moore with Roger Tibbetts, Digby Area Food Bank manager, shortly after delivery of menstrual hygiene products provided by Balser’s Pharmachoice. Catherine Moore Photo

Digby Pad Party a resounding success

The vehicle that Diane Saulnier and her two daughters were traveling in was struck on its drivers' side as it was turning into a driveway. The vehicle that stuck them was passing other vehicles. The sudden impact caused the vehicle to roll onto its roof in a ditch. PHOTO COURTESY DIANE SAULNIER

'It could have been a lot worse': Mother stresses importance of ...

St. Mary's Bay Academy prom. KARLA KELLY PHOTO

Photo Gallery: St. Mary's Bay Academy celebrates prom

Clare Prom 2019 CONTRIBUTED

PHOTO GALLERY: Ecole Secondaire de Clare celebrates prom 2019

Digby prom 2019 KARLA KELLY PHOTO

PHOTO GALLERY: Digby Regional High School marks prom 2019 on June 2

Digby Town Hall

Town of Digby approves budget; residential rate unchanged, commercial ...

Nelson Blinn of Plympton, Digby County, enjoys making tiny replicas. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Big enjoyment from tiny replicas: Digby County's Nelson Blinn can’t ...

The province has filed a leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada. They want that court to stay the Appeal Court’s order to unseal documents pertaining to the Alton Gas file in the meantime. - File

Supreme Court decision allows N.S. government to keep 'conquered ...

The Gustave-Blanche Building that stands on the Université Sainte-Anne campus in Church Point, Digby County, was rebuilt in 1899 following a fire. It is named after one of the university’s founders. Renovations are coming to the exterior and interior of the building to help modernize it and increase its usage for the university and community.
TINA COMEAU PHOTO

$1 million in funding announced for Université Sainte-Anne renovations to aging infrastructure

Updated Jul 10, 2019 at 5:33 p.m.

The Gran Fondo Baie Sainte-Marie is the largest cycling event in Atlantic Canada. CONTRIBUTED

Why ride Gran Fondo in Clare? Organizers offer 10 reasons

Updated a day ago

Former NHL player Jody Shelley talks with friend Billy Corbin from Columbus, Ohio, who was one of Shelley’s playing partners at last year’s Jody Shelley Golf Fore Health Tournament at the River Hills Golf and Country Club.

Jody Shelley Golf Fore Health event to surpass half a million dollars raised

Updated Jul 12, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.

The province has filed a leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada. They want that court to stay the Appeal Court’s order to unseal documents pertaining to the Alton Gas file in the meantime. - File

Breaking Supreme Court decision allows N.S. government to keep 'conquered people' documents secret, for now

Updated 40 minutes ago

Local

Ground bison products recalled due to possible E-coli contamination

Updated 9 hours ago

The monarch butterfly is classified as endangered, and is on the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources’ list of at-risk species.

Provinces must act on species protection: report

Published Jul 05, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Annapolis RCMP Crime Report looks at the weekly calls for service police answer.

Stranger Things - Drone strike in Wilmot? Woman mowing naked? Annapolis District RCMP answered those calls

Updated Jul 05, 2019 at 10:29 a.m.

RCMP and search and rescue teams used a spot at Kejimkujik National Park as a command post in their search for a missing man late in the afternoon on July 2. Earlier in the day they found the man's nine-year-old daughter. The two were reported missing at suppertime July 1 when they didn't return from a canoeing trip from Milford House started several days earlier.

UPDATED: Missing man found alive and well after Keji-area search

Updated Jul 04, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.

Opinion

In 1994, Joel Neily and his younger sister Lacey were excited to present retiring Falmouth teacher Edith Johnson with a bouquet of flowers and a t-shirt featuring handprints and signatures on it to thank her for her years of teaching at the elementary school.

HANTS HISTORY: Early July 2019 edition

Updated a day ago

Nova Scotia’s government introduced a coastal protection bill this week. The coastline above is in Hants County. - Ryan Taplin

VIBERT: Adapting to climate change on the coast

Updated Jul 09, 2019 at 8:35 a.m.

Lunenburg West MLA Mark Furey announced that Halifax’s EXP Architects were awarded the $4.77 million contract to renovate the South Shore Regional Hospital’s aging facilities. (Josh Healey)

VIBERT: Furey ‘undermined’ role of chief justice

Updated Jul 09, 2019 at 8:44 a.m.

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: McNeil's inaction setting stage for future nursing home crisis

Updated Jul 09, 2019 at 8:43 a.m.

Business

A fishing boat sails past The Cat ferry as it is docked in Yarmouth. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Bay Ferries not taking any more reservations until "definitive" answer known about 2019 Cat ferry service

Updated a day ago

Peter Burt and Robin Crane of Newfoundland Salt Company.

Bonavista’s Newfoundland Salt Company in the running for national grant

Updated Jul 11, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Rachel D’Entremont and Victoria Burry of the Health Hut in Clarenville.

Clarenville business offers environmentally friendly options for daily living

Updated Jun 27, 2019 at 6:51 a.m.

A unique house building project by JD Composites Inc. The house in Meteghan River, Digby County, was built using recycled plastic bottles.

IN DEPTH: The Ultimate recycling project in Nova Scotia: Meteghan River house built with around 612,000 recycled plastic bottles

Updated Jul 10, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.

Sports

Ryan Graves was back in hometown of Yarmouth to run a hockey school for minor hockey kids July 15-19. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

On home ice: Ryan Graves back in Yarmouth NS to run hockey school for minor hockey players

Updated 4 hours ago

Kelly Goudey with some of the skates and helmets that have been donated so far for youth in the far-north hamlet of Cambridge Bay.

From Yarmouth hockey town to a far north hockey hamlet – the gift of skates and helmets

Updated a day ago

Emmanuelle Kinsman, being interviewed for her eligibility to join Canada's National Ballet School (NBS) in Toronto. After failing her first audition to join the school, she spent a year training, auditioned again and is spending the month of July training at the prestigious Toronto institution in classical ballet. CONTRIBUTED

Canaan girl to spend July training in classical ballet in Toronto

Updated Jul 09, 2019 at 10:23 a.m.

Hayley Wickenheiser celebrates gold for Team Canada at the Sochi Games in 2014. AL CHAREST/POSTMEDIA

GALLERY: Meet the Hockey Hall of Fame's Class of 2019

Updated Jun 26, 2019 at 7:48 a.m.

Lifestyles

Your look at a rainbow of Pride events in Halifax

Updated 2 hours ago

Grandview Gardens Bed and Breakfast has a heated pool and antique-filled interiors on a gracious 1920s estate in West Palm Beach.

Travel: Palm Beach's host with the most runs grand bed and breakfast

Updated a day ago

Going up! The roller coast makes its first climb before flinging riders down, up and around on a scream-inducing 90-second thrill. - Allan Lynch

Rediscover the magic of Nova Scotia’s Upper Clements Park this summer trip with or without kids

Updated a day ago

Wendy Elliott. File

WENDY ELLIOTT: All humans deserve respect

Updated a day ago

Recent Stories

The province has filed a leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada. They want that court to stay the Appeal Court’s order to unseal documents pertaining to the Alton Gas file in the meantime. - File

Supreme Court decision allows N.S. government to keep 'conquered people' documents secret, for now

Your look at a rainbow of Pride events in Halifax

When the boggy, eroded conditions of the road leading to his home got egregious, Garnet Misner resorted to using pieces of wood to help vehicle traction. Pictured is one of those pieces of wood he used.

Kings County resident frustrated with poor maintenance, lack of service on North Mountain

The 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus gets 363 kilometres of advertised range, along with 215 total horsepower. - Justin Pritchard

2019 Nissan Leaf Plus bridges range gap

Ryan Graves was back in hometown of Yarmouth to run a hockey school for minor hockey kids July 15-19. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

On home ice: Ryan Graves back in Yarmouth NS to run hockey school for minor hockey players

AUTO ADVICE: Window won’t go up; check-engine notice

The Snail, a 750 Honda Shadow, is pictured in Nufrage Harbour, P.E.I., in 2012. - Mark Creamer

BACKSEAT RIDER: Go camping on the bike and let versatility be your guide this summer

Our 2019 Mazda 3 GS tester was powered by a 155 horsepower, 2.0-litre, four-cylinder engine. - Justin Pritchard

2019 Mazda 3 GS might just be most important test drive in busy compact-car segment

The 2019 Porsche Macan S is powered by a turbocharged, 3.0-litre V6 that makes up to 348 horsepower and 352 lb.-ft. of torque.

FIRST DRIVE: 2019 Porsche Macan S is ‘a true sport utility vehicle’

Dr. Bob Mullan, speaking about primary care issues in Nova Scotia's healthcare system July 10, in Millville.

Millville meeting focuses on health-care woes in Nova Scotia, Department of Health and Wellness responds

June 2009 photo of the Hibernia Platform, located on the Grand Banks, 315 km east southeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Sheen observed on water near Hibernia platform

Turkey Meatloaf Muffins. (Turkey Farmers of Canada)

Muffin mania