Pictou County District RCMP are investigating a fatal collision that occurred in Pine Tree.  On Saturday at approximately 10:00 p.m., the RCMP, fire services, and EHS all responded to a single-vehicle collision on Highway 4 between Woodburn Road and Old Pine Tree Road.

Police say a vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree.  The driver of the vehicle, an 18-year-old man from New Glasgow, was pronounced deceased at the scene. Two passengers, a 16-year-old Pictou County man and 19-year-old New Glasgow woman, were both taken to hospital with serious injuries.

An RCMP collision reconstructionist attended the scene and the investigation is continuing.

 

 

The Long Lake wildfire continued to burn out of control on the weekend, but firefighters were reporting some progress.

Provincial fire officials issued a statement yesterday saying the fire south of Bridgetown had not grown and there were no new reports of damage.

As well, they said firefighters had surrounded the wildfire with fire breaks, which includes openings carved from the woods and the installation of water hoses.

Firefighters are now advancing toward the fires, some of them reaching up to 300 metres from the perimeter.

 

 

A conciliation meeting is scheduled for today in Halifax to help end a contract dispute between Dalhousie University and its faculty association.

Two weeks ago, the university locked out about one-thousand professors, librarians and other teaching and support staff, forcing the cancellation of many classes.

Some courses, however, are taught by teaching assistants or part-time instructors, who are not part of the union.

The university’s administration has offered a six per cent wage increase over three years, but the Dalhousie Faculty Association was pushing for a 14 per cent wage hike.

 

 

The former C-E-O of the I-W-K children’s hospital in Halifax has been found guilty of fraud for a second time.

Tracy Kitch appeared by video Friday as a provincial court Judge handed down her decision following a retrial that was ordered after the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned an earlier conviction.

The Judge said Kitch used a corporate credit card and flights paid for by the hospital for personal reasons and didn’t admit to it until she was caught.

The judge said Kitch’s actions were dishonest and deprived the I-W-K of money meant to address health-care needs for mothers and children.