Stellarton Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Saturday morning.

It was at about 10:00am when police responded to Hudson Street in Stellarton about a report of a man who had been shot.

A 35-year-old-man was taken to hospital for what police say are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries from gunshot wounds.

Stellarton Police are still in the early stages of the investigation but do not believe this to be random act.

Anyone with information about the incident or video from the area is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers.

 

 

The Utility and Review Board invoked the interrupter clause on the weekend for another significant decrease in gasoline and diesel prices.

Gasoline prices dropped 10.1 cents per litre on Saturday to 164.2 cents per litre locally, while diesel prices fell 7.9 cents per litre to 172.6 cents per litre in the local area.

 

 

The interim replacement ferry for the MV Holiday Island for Northumberland Ferries is undergoing its evaluation after arriving in Caribou late Friday.

The MV Saaremaa 1 is owned by a ferry company based in Quebec, STQ, but Northumberland Ferries has secured the use of the ferry after the MV Holiday Island was knocked out of service July 22nd by a fire in its engine room.

Officials are evaluating the MV Saaremaa 1 over the next week and there will be some modifications needed to the docking infrastructure and vessel.

It is expected the ferry will start to make crossings between Wood islands and Caribou by the middle of the month.

 

 

A research group that looks at COVID-19 data across the country is rating Nova Scotia the highest in the country in its hazard index for the last week in July.

COVID-19 Resources Canada — which receives some funds from Health Canada — rated Nova Scotia very high on its hazard index, while the rest of the country was rated either high or elevated.

The group’s experts are noting that Nova Scotia had more people who haven’t had the disease yet, and this gives the virus more people to potentially infect.

To come up with the hazard index, the group looks at infection rates, vaccine protection, impacts to the health-care system and deaths.

 

 

The federal environment minister says he’s disappointed Nova Scotia is looking to “stall” on taxing carbon pollution.

Steven Guilbeault is reacting to a July 5th letter from Nova Scotia Environment Minister Tim Halman that voices concern about the province adopting a carbon tax at a time of high inflation.

But Guilbeault says the Nova Scotia government has “every opportunity” to design a pricing system that will directly return carbon tax revenues to the public.

Halman said last week that he wanted a collaborative approach that works for Nova Scotia and develops offshore wind, tidal power and green hydrogen.