The Digby Courier

Like many great ideas do, the one for the Breaking Waves Festival in Freeport, Digby County, started out years with a bunch of people sitting in a kitchen when someone pondered the ‘What if?’ question. What if we had a music ...

Newly-crowned Miss World Canada Naomi Colford has already started turning heads and catching eyes. Colford, 19, a second-year university nursing student from Sydney, Nova Scotia attained the title Saturday evening — besting 55 other ...

In his most recent book, Pictou County author Don MacLean has included a black and white picture that shows his father, grandfather and aunt cutting a field of oats in Cape Breton. “I really like the picture because it reminds me that I am one ...

Q. Late in the spring, my small cucumber transplants developed bleached areas on the leaves. What causes this? A. Sunscald was a common issue with cucumber and similar transplants like squash, pumpkin and melon this past spring and early ...

Chris Cochrane a.k.a. Elle Noir. Chris Cochrane hasn’t seen a Halifax Pride parade in 14 years. “I’m in it, so I don’t see it,” Cochrane said during a phone interview. Well, in 2019, problem solved. An ...

On July 26, harpist Saeed Foroughi and Sandra Phinney will take part in an ongoing, international musical collaboration that celebrates the life and work of 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi. The Silk Road Project was founded in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo ...

The Deep Sky Eye Observatory in Quinan has become a destination for tourists and the newest addition to the experience can’t help but add to the appeal. Tim Doucette, owner of the observatory, says he was contacted last November by National ...

There were signs as early as 1935 in our very own Hants Journal that fascism was building toward a world war in Europe. ...

Tracie Dugas insists she is no magician. But gazing at her latest chainsaw wood carving, it’s hard to believe there wasn’t any magic involved in transforming a large pine log into a finely detailed sculpture of a life-sized ...

Woman’s Day magazine is only too happy to offer its readers a whopping ‘85 Weight Loss Tips That'll Help You Slim Down.’ ...