On Tuesday shortly before 8:00am, there was a stairwell collapse at an apartment on Washington Street in New Glasgow.

New Glasgow Regional Police, Emergency Health Services and New Glasgow Fire Department responded to the apartment and a 44-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A 7-year-old boy was also taken to hospital and was later airlifted to a Hospital in Halifax with serious injuries.

The cause of the collapse has not been determined.

 

 

Pictou County District RCMP was in the area of East River West Side Rd. in Eureka on Tuesday to arrest a man wanted on outstanding warrants.

Upon seeing police, the man ran off through a river and into nearby woods.

Officers, assisted by two RCMP Police Dog Service teams, pursued the man and safely arrested the 22-year-old nearby.

 

 

Pictou County District RCMP is investigating a break-in at a volunteer fire department in Barneys River.

On Sunday night at about 11 p.m., RCMP responded to the fire department and learned that approximately $35,000 worth of equipment had been stolen during the break-in.

The culprits had also damaged the front door.

The break-in is believed to have occurred between 11 p.m. last Wednesday and 11 p.m. on Sunday.

The items stolen include a set of “Jaws of Life” used to free people from vehicles after collisions.

 

 

Central Nova MP and Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has revealed new immigration targets that he says are focused on economic growth.

The government is setting a goal of admitting 500-thousand immigrants per year by 2025.

Fraser says Canada is struggling with a labour shortage resulting in one-million job vacancies and that by the third year of the plan, 60 per cent of new immigrants will be admitted under economic immigration categories.

 

 

The team restoring a replica of the historic ship Hector says it’s been inundated with offers of wood from trees downed by post-tropical storm Fiona.

The extended power outage that followed the September storm was just the latest setback in work to restore a replica of the 1773 ship that brought about 190 settlers from Scotland to Pictou.

But the ship’s restoration manager says it led to more offers of wood than the team knows what to do with.

A descendant of one of the Hector’s Scottish passengers, Vern Shea, says the wood — some of it up to 250 years old — will be used to build the galley and captain’s cabin.