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A section of Pitts Memorial Drive between the CN Viaduct and the overpass above Blackhead Road will be reduced to one lane on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Stock Image

UPDATE: Construction continues on McClures Mills Road and Willow Street roundabout

Beginning Wednesday, May 29th, the traffic lights at the intersection of McClures Mills Road and Willow Street will no longer function as construction continues. The intersection will be turned into a three-way stop, and traffic control will be in ...

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Breaking

Cape Breton Moose Hunt cancelled for 2024, leaked documents say

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Applications for the annual Cape Breton moose hunt licence lottery are set to open May 9.

Nova Scotia opens funding applications for mental health and addiction programs

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Nova Scotia has launched new multi-year funding to support mental health and addiction groups in the communities. - Stock Image

Council talks rezoning and new stop signs for town of New Glasgow

Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read

E-voting: Town of New Glasgow releases details regarding 2024 municipal election

Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

Centreville, N.S. man suffers life-threatening injuries after motorcycle-truck collision in Kings County

Updated 4 hours ago |1 min read

Opinion

A bee goes from one flower to the next as it feasts on hyacinth nectar in Bowring Park Wednesday. Keith Gosse • The Telegram

LETTER: Keep the bees in mind

The letter to the editor, "The Buzz from the Bees," in the Telegram May 21, 2024, by Everett Hobbs, prompted me to write this article. I have always been an avid gardener, berry picker and grower of fruit trees and know the value of bees. Many years ...

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EDITORIAL: Congratulations, graduates of 2024. Our future is in good hands.

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UPEI 2024 graduates from the faculty of nursing and the faculty of veterinary medicine walk into the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre for their convocation ceremony on May 14. Vivian Ulinwa • The Guardian

COMMENTARY: As Gaza war continues, Israel's Arabs worry

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A December 2023 survey by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 71 per cent of Arabs living in Israel are worried about voicing their views on social media. The survey also found that 84 per cent of respondents feared for their physical safety, while 86 per cent worried about their economic security. Levi Meir Clancy • Unsplash

LETTER: Inspired by Unknown Soldier ceremony

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LETTER: Salmon farming industry calling for DFO researchers to retract biased statements about Conne River

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OPINION: If you work in the N.L. energy industry, here’s what’s in store for you

Updated 8 hours ago |4 min read

Business

The Java Blend location on North Street on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

Contract issues brewing at Java Blend more than just wages

Negotiations on a first collective bargaining agreement for Java Blend employees in Halifax will begin within four weeks. The employees at Java Blend North Street, Java Blend Sackville Street, Cortado Tasting Room in Bedford and Coastal Coffee ...

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Neighsayers don't want Nova Scotia paintball facility across from equestrian facility

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West Hants council is currently deciding on whether to enter into a development agreement with Patrick Hill, who wants to launch a paintball facility in Summerville, which would offer both speedball and woods ball.

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Is supply management really driving up food prices in Canada?

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Two new ride-sharing services hit the streets in Newfoundland and Labrador

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SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Would the grocer code of conduct have prevented Canada’s bread cartel?

Updated 22 hours ago |3 min read

Canada Industrial Relations Board steps into the railway labour dispute — what happens now?

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Lifestyles

Jolanta Grossman traded in a career in investment banking for a more natural way of life leading ecotours, teaching yoga and produces a variety of natural products.

Foraging for Flavour

A walk along the shoreline near Lawrencetown reveals more than just big waves and surfers. There's a wealth of ingredients ready to be foraged.

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SENIOR LIVING: Contrary to popular belief, there’s no formula for grief

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SENIOR LIVING: A spring stretching guide for seniors

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Zoomers physiotherapist Laura Lundquist demonstrates how to do the seated hamstring stretch. The hamstring muscles are often very tight after a winter of reduced physical activity and increased time spent sitting. CONTRIBUTED

Royal St. John's Regatta adds concert, other Confederation 75 enhancements

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PHOTO: Cape Breton Girl Guides clean-up community

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CAA Atlantic donates four electric vans to regional food banks

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Sports

Halifax's Ellie Black competes at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, Britain, November 3, 2022. - REUTERS/Phil Noble

Ellie Black, Wyatt Sanford, Jacob Shaffelburg among finalists for major N.S. awards

Olympians Ellie Black and Wyatt Sanford are some of the Nova Scotians up for major awards at this weekend's Support4Sport banquet. Halifax's Black is one of three finalists for the senior female athlete of the year for the province after another ...

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CPL: Wanderers, York United loan a player to each other

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The Halifax Wanderers have acquired the rights to forward Clement Bayiha (right) from York United. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

MEMORIAL CUP: Nova Scotia's Luke Woodworth, Voltigeurs enter next game with 'our life on the line'

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Drummondville Voltigeurs captain Luke Woodworth celebrates his goal against the Saginaw Spirit at the Memorial Cup in Saginaw, Michigan on Sunday. - Eric Young / CHL

Nine years after a serious car accident and learning to walk again, Peter Morse is a national golf champion

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MARITIME WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION: Smooth sailing for 56ers’ Wright

Updated May. 24, 2024 |6 min read

EAST COAST INTERNATIONAL PRO STOCK TOUR: Jarrett Butcher wins season-opening race in Geary, N.B.

Updated May. 26, 2024 |1 min read

Communities

UPDATE: Construction continues on McClures Mills Road and Willow Street roundabout

Beginning Wednesday, May 29th, the traffic lights at the intersection of McClures Mills Road and Willow Street will no longer function as construction continues. The intersection will be turned into a three-way stop, and traffic control will be in ...

Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

Council talks rezoning and new stop signs for town of New Glasgow

Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read

At the New Glasgow Town Council meeting held Feb. 20 the first reading of a backflow prevention bylaw was read, this would require new developments and existing at risk properties to install backflow preventer's as a way to lower the risk of cross contamination to the towns drinking water supply in accordance with provincial guidelines. - Contributed

E-voting: Town of New Glasgow releases details regarding 2024 municipal election

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Neighsayers don't want Nova Scotia paintball facility across from equestrian facility

Updated 3 hours ago |8 min read

Centreville, N.S. man suffers life-threatening injuries after motorcycle-truck collision in Kings County

Updated 4 hours ago |1 min read

Yarmouth seniors safely evacuated from residential boarding home when fire breaks out in attached garage

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Canada

Granite Management Limited facing health and safety charges

A Mount Pearl-based company, Granite Management Limited, has been charged with health and safety violations after a worker was injured in an accident in 2022. The charges stem from an incident in June 2022 at a wharf construction site in Gooseberry ...

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Speaker insists his decisions have been unbiased, as Commons considers voting him out

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Canada, Ontario in deal for affordable housing amid soaring home costs

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For sale sign is displayed outside a home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 15, 2021.

In Photos

Canada, U.S. mere metres apart as Gordie Howe bridge deck gap narrows

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Trash by the truckload picked up along Outer Ring Road

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Boxing Rock Brewing Company wins best brewery at 2024 Canadian Brewing Awards

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World

A flooded classroom is seen at the Brasilia school after floods due to heavy rains in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 22, 2024.

Floods in southern Brazil leave students without classrooms for a month

By Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms after catastrophic floods submerged some schools and turned others into shelters, raising ...

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Venus has more volcanism than previously known, new analysis finds

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A computer-generated 3D model of Venus' surface provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the volcano Sif Mons which is exhibiting signs of ongoing activity, in this undated handout image. Using data from NASA's Magellan mission, Italian researchers detected evidence of an eruption while the spacecraft orbited the planet in the early 1990s. NASA/JPL/Handout via REUTERS

Egypt, UAE talks continuing over Ras El Hekma land deal

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US condemns Georgian parliament's passing of foreign influence bill

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Former general Golan wins Israeli Labour party leadership

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Mass wedding plans deferred in Nigeria, some girls, women marry privately

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Local

UPDATE: Construction continues on McClures Mills Road and Willow Street roundabout

Cape Breton Moose Hunt cancelled for 2024, leaked documents say

Nova Scotia opens funding applications for mental health and addiction programs

Council talks rezoning and new stop signs for town of New Glasgow

E-voting: Town of New Glasgow releases details regarding 2024 municipal election

Centreville, N.S. man suffers life-threatening injuries after motorcycle-truck collision in Kings County

Opinion

LETTER: Keep the bees in mind

EDITORIAL: Congratulations, graduates of 2024. Our future is in good hands.

COMMENTARY: As Gaza war continues, Israel's Arabs worry

LETTER: Inspired by Unknown Soldier ceremony

LETTER: Salmon farming industry calling for DFO researchers to retract biased statements about Conne River

OPINION: If you work in the N.L. energy industry, here’s what’s in store for you

Business

Contract issues brewing at Java Blend more than just wages

Neighsayers don't want Nova Scotia paintball facility across from equestrian facility

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Is supply management really driving up food prices in Canada?

Two new ride-sharing services hit the streets in Newfoundland and Labrador

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Would the grocer code of conduct have prevented Canada’s bread cartel?

Canada Industrial Relations Board steps into the railway labour dispute — what happens now?

Lifestyles

Foraging for Flavour

SENIOR LIVING: Contrary to popular belief, there’s no formula for grief

SENIOR LIVING: A spring stretching guide for seniors

Royal St. John's Regatta adds concert, other Confederation 75 enhancements

PHOTO: Cape Breton Girl Guides clean-up community

CAA Atlantic donates four electric vans to regional food banks

Sports

Ellie Black, Wyatt Sanford, Jacob Shaffelburg among finalists for major N.S. awards

CPL: Wanderers, York United loan a player to each other

MEMORIAL CUP: Nova Scotia's Luke Woodworth, Voltigeurs enter next game with 'our life on the line'

Nine years after a serious car accident and learning to walk again, Peter Morse is a national golf champion

MARITIME WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION: Smooth sailing for 56ers’ Wright

EAST COAST INTERNATIONAL PRO STOCK TOUR: Jarrett Butcher wins season-opening race in Geary, N.B.

Communities

UPDATE: Construction continues on McClures Mills Road and Willow Street roundabout

Council talks rezoning and new stop signs for town of New Glasgow

E-voting: Town of New Glasgow releases details regarding 2024 municipal election

Neighsayers don't want Nova Scotia paintball facility across from equestrian facility

Centreville, N.S. man suffers life-threatening injuries after motorcycle-truck collision in Kings County

Yarmouth seniors safely evacuated from residential boarding home when fire breaks out in attached garage

Canada

Granite Management Limited facing health and safety charges

Speaker insists his decisions have been unbiased, as Commons considers voting him out

Canada, Ontario in deal for affordable housing amid soaring home costs

Canada, U.S. mere metres apart as Gordie Howe bridge deck gap narrows

Trash by the truckload picked up along Outer Ring Road

Boxing Rock Brewing Company wins best brewery at 2024 Canadian Brewing Awards

World

Floods in southern Brazil leave students without classrooms for a month

Venus has more volcanism than previously known, new analysis finds

Egypt, UAE talks continuing over Ras El Hekma land deal

US condemns Georgian parliament's passing of foreign influence bill

Former general Golan wins Israeli Labour party leadership

Mass wedding plans deferred in Nigeria, some girls, women marry privately

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