Author Archives: Kevin Northup

The price of diesel is up seven cents from yesterday. The province using its interrupter clause to adjust the price last night. Diesel is now over $1.90 a litre in most areas. Gas prices didn't change...

The Yarmouth Shark Scramble was held over the weekend. Hundreds came to the Yarmouth waterfront on Saturday to see the weigh-ins. There were 35 sharks landed on 12 boats, totaling over 8,700 pounds. O...

A record-tying 56 medals for Nova Scotia at the Canada Games in Niagara, Ontario. We finished with 22 gold, 15 silver and 19 bronze, as the games wrapped up yesterday. Nova Scotia won three team-sport...

A head-on crash in Yarmouth on Saturday night has claimed three lives. It happened around 8:30 on Highway 103 near Greenville, as a car and a pickup truck collided. A 22 year old man and an 18 year ol...

It's weekend two of the Coal Shed Music Festival on the Yarmouth waterfront. The music gets going this afternoon, and continues tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Organizer Phil DeMille says most of the ac...

There were 11 deaths due to COVID-19 in Nova Scotia last week, six more than the week before. According to the province's dashboard on the virus, the deaths happened between August 9-15. Forty people ...

A cleanup on Brier Island, Digby County tomorrow. The Nature Conservancy of Canada is looking for 25 volunteers to gather at 9:30 a.m. and help clean marine debris on the shoreline. You're asked to br...

Thirteen more medals for Nova Scotia at the Canada Games in Niagara, Ontario. Athletes from our province took six gold, two silver and five bronze medals in canoe-kayak events yesterday. We now have 3...

St. Mary's Bay is closed to commercial fishers due to a recent North Atlantic Right Whale sighting off Digby Neck. Those fishing crab and herring had to remove their gear to avoid potential entangleme...

The price of gas is down, and diesel is up after the province's regular weekly adjustment. Gas fell by nearly two cents to sit around $1.70 per litre, depending on where you fill up. Diesel increased ...