On Monday at 7:00 am, the New Glasgow Regional Police Major Crime Unit executed a search warrant at a home on Martin Avenue in New Glasgow.

Police say that search warrant is the result of a lengthy child pornography investigation.

During the search, police seized several items including a cell phone and laptop.

As a result, a 16-year-old male from Pictou County was arrested at the home and charged with Possession of Child Pornography, and Distribution of Child Pornography.

He was held in custody and will be appearing in Provincial Court in Pictou in February.

 

 

The Provincial government is investing $245,000 to help the Pictou West Food Bank relocate to a more accessible building.

The food bank has operated for 20 years from the basement of Pictou Town Hall in a space with no elevator access or proper washrooms.

Provincial funding will support the move to a 604-square-metre facility in downtown Pictou with a fully equipped commercial kitchen and walk-in refrigeration unit.

Officials say the new location offers the potential for a soup kitchen, food and nutrition workshops, and community rentals.

 

 

Nova Scotia’s wait list of residents in need of a family doctor or nurse practitioner has reached more than 129-thousand people.

Data released Monday shows that the list has grown by more than four-thousand people between December 1st and January 1st.

The wait list has grown by more than 46-thousand people year over year, with about 83-thousand people registered as needing a family doctor in January 2022.

 

 

R-C-M-P say a person has been taken into custody in connection with the death of a woman near a campground in Five Islands.

Police say the woman’s body was found by officers responding to a report of shots fired Monday night.

The Mounties say they don’t think the shooting was random or that there was any risk to the public.

Police say the person taken into custody at 8:30 a-m Tuesday morning was known to the victim, but they could not provide details of their relationship.

 

 

Proceedings are to continue today in the murder trial of a former medical student accused of fatally shooting a fellow Dalhousie University student and disposing of his body after a drug deal turned violent.

Thirty-year-old William Sandeson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Crown attorney Carla Ball told the jury yesterday that the victim, Taylor Samson, was a 22-year-old physics student when he disappeared late on August 15th, 2015.

Ball says the evidence shows Sandeson killed Samson within minutes of his arrival at his Halifax apartment and Samson’s remains were never found.

 

 

A Nova Scotia legislative committee has been told the province must increase income assistance to help a growing number of residents struggling with the rising cost of food and housing.

Feed Nova Scotia executive director Nick Jennery says his network provided food to a record 20-thousand residents this holiday season as current income assistance rates are “grossly” below the poverty line.

The executive director of Chebucto Connections says the work of the non-profit community organization is getting harder as the rising cost of living pushes more residents toward homelessness.

Christina Carter says income assistance must be increased and indexed to the rate of inflation to ensure vulnerable people are adequately fed and housed.