Pictou County District RCMP are investigating two suspicious fires this past Saturday.  At about 1:20 a.m., RCMP responded to a call of a vehicle on fire in a parking lot near Exit 27 on Hwy. 104 in Sutherlands River. Officers arrived to find an empty vehicle, fully engulfed in flames.

Then, shortly before 2:00am, police got another call of a fire at an abandoned mill on Shores Rd. in Egerton. The building, which is believed to have been empty at the time of the fire, was fully engulfed in flames.

The RCMP believes the two suspicious fires are related.

 

 

Pictou County District RCMP say they have seen a rise in thefts from vehicles in the Town of Pictou . In just two days, they received five reports of theft from vehicles and one report of vehicle theft. Police remind you to take your keys, keep valuables out of sight, and always lock up.

The provincial government is providing some funding to assist the communities of Truro and Bible Hill face climate change.  In Truro, the Department of Municipal Affairs is pledging to complete a high-priority repair to the Lepper Brook dam and reservoir, including the spillway chute structure.   The department says the 1.4-million dollar project will help prevent dam failure.  The Village of Bible Hill is getting a new, bigger diesel generator to replace the one currently used for emergency backup power, with the total cost of the project being just under 250-thousand dollars.

 

 

Opposition parties in Nova Scotia are saying the newly announced Nova Scotia Loyal program is not enough to help those struggling with food insecurity put food on the table.

Liberal leader Zach Churchill says the program has more to do with optics than outcomes.

Churchill says the six-million dollar provincial investment would have been better spent at food banks, which are in high demand province-wide.

 

 

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says safety concerns kept him from this year’s Halifax Pride parade.  Houston released an emailed statement saying he was advised by the R-C-M-P not to take part “out of an abundance of caution,” but no further details were provided about the alleged risk.  Houston says the decision to skip the event doesn’t diminish his support for the L-G-B-T-Q-Plus community.  Nova Scotia’s Liberal, N-D-P and Green parties each had a parade float this year, leaving the Conservatives as the only major political party not represented at the event.