SYDNEY — The Canadian Army Reserve is hosting a job fair at Sydney's Victoria Park this weekend. Recruiters are welcoming both full and part-time job seekers to learn about opportunities available with the reserves. The local infantry regiment, the ...

Here are just a few of the public events taking place this weekend as well as on Earth Day on Monday.  Saturday, April 20: People's Parade, bird watching, science and sports gear donations The day kicks off early with an 8 a.m. guided bird walk, ...

It will likely start with a saucy wink, a twist of the hips and probably showing some leg. The first Atlantic Burlesque Festival, hosted by Atlantic Burlesque Co-operative, will be held in Halifax on May 17-18 at Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Studio ...

SYDNEY - Take a deep breath, but gas prices are approaching summer levels. Across most of Cape Breton, the minimum price for a litre of regular self-serve gas jumped 9.7 cents overnight to $1.869. That’s up from $1.772 per litre over the past week, ...

Some Nova Scotia drivers picked  their pain of waiting in what were long lineups at the pumps Thursday to avoid Friday's pocketbook pain — a gas price increase of 9.8 cents a litre. The Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board used its weekly ...

A River Ryan man is to complete a one-year conditional sentence as part of the sentence imposed on a charge of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. Daniel Edward Hemmings, 30, is also to complete a two-year probation period and is prohibited from ...

Having won their best-of-seven series with Chicoutimi 4-0, the Cape Breton Eagles may learn Friday who they will face next on the road to claiming the Gilles-Courteau Cup (formerly known as the President‘s Cup). Eagles fans were out in full force ...

It’s time for the final group of shops, bars and restaurants on Charlotte Street to endure several weeks of construction in front of their storefronts. Some will have to deal with the problem of drawing downtown visitors to an uninviting-looking ...

Gamon Jay Leacock, a high-risk offender accused of attacking three women in Halifax on the afternoon of Jan. 15, has elected to be tried in Nova Scotia Supreme Court by a judge and jury. Leacock, 49, made the election Thursday, when he appeared in ...

A young man who faces 17 charges from a shooting in north-end Dartmouth this winter says a provincial court judge made an error in law when she denied him bail last month. Trequawn Alvontra Smith, 23, of North Preston was arrested in a vehicle a few ...