Pictou County District RCMP are investigating a serious crash that occurred on Thursday on Gairloch Rd. in Union Centre.

It was about 11:45 p.m., when Pictou County District RCMP, fire and EHS all responded to the scene.

When they arrived, officers learned that a car was travelling on Gairloch Road when it left the road, went through a ditch, across a private property and came to rest in a tree line.

There were 6 people in the car at the time of the crash, four females and two males.

All six suffered injuries, ranging from minor to life-threatening, and were taken to hospital.

A collision reconstructionist attended the scene and the investigation is ongoing.

 

 

Shortly before 11:30pm on Saturday, Yarmouth Rural RCMP responded to a missing child report.

The child, who was visiting the area with their family, had left a home earlier in the evening for an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) ride and hadn’t returned.

At 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, an RCMP officer located the ten-year-old child, who was from Coldbrook, dead. The ATV the child was driving was found in a ditch along a road in Gavelton.

The investigation is ongoing.

 

 

Good news from the RCMP in a couple missing persons cases.

The RCMP says that a 21-year-old man who was reported missing from Alma has been located safe.

Also, a couple youths missing from New Glasgow have been located safe.

The RCMP thanks members of the public for their social media shares.

 

 

A municipal councillor in Nova Scotia says the opening of the main road to the Peggy’s Cove lighthouse has brought relief to an area besieged by disaster.

Pam Lovelace, councillor for the Hammonds Plains area, says the washout near Blind Bay on the route to the lighthouse was hard on the tourism sector and on local residents.

The road was destroyed during the historic flooding in late July, and it reopened Friday after workers installed a temporary bridge.

Lovelace says the flooding was hard on residents’ mental health, as it came about two months after devastating wildfires and less than a year after post-tropical storm Fiona.

 

 

Housing affordability will be the key focus this week as the federal cabinet meets in Charlottetown for a three-day retreat ahead of the return of Parliament next month.

The get-together comes as the governing Liberals face a cranky electorate and lagging poll numbers following the COVID-19 pandemic and its inflation-riddled aftermath.

Liberal officials say addressing the housing affordability crisis, with a particular emphasis on young people, will be the main agenda item.