Pictou County News, May 6th 2024
Statistics Canada will be releasing its labour force survey for April this week. It comes after more people looking for work sent the country's unemployment rate in March to its highest level in nearly two years. The age...
May 06, 2024
Pictou County News, May 3rd 2024
Gasoline prices and diesel prices decreased overnight in Nova Scotia. Gasoline prices decreased by 3.3 cents per litre, leaving the minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline at 185.2 cents per litre in the loca...
May 03, 2024
Pictou County News, May 2nd 2024
An independent committee has released its first report on the response to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, but there's no assessment of the progress made to date. The report includes a thorough ac...
May 02, 2024
Pictou County News, May 1st 2024
An update is expected today from the committee overseeing how governments and the R-C-M-P are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia. Shortly after the 16-member group met for the first time...
May 01, 2024
Pictou County News, April 30th 2024
The three major political parties have named their candidates for the upcoming byelection in Pictou West. The N-D-P will be represented by Melinda MacKenzie and the Liberals have named Mary Wooldridge-Elliot as their ca...
Apr 30, 2024
Pictou County News, April 29th 2024
No injuries are reported from a fire Saturday night in New Glasgow. Shortly before 7:30pm, the Stellarton, Linacy, Trenton, and New Glasgow Fire Departments, Emergency Health Services, Nova Scotia Power and New Glasgow ...
Apr 29, 2024
Pictou County News, April 26th 2024
Gasoline prices rose overnight in Nova Scotia, while diesel prices dropped. Gasoline prices increased by 2.3 cents per litre, leaving the minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline at 188.5 cents per litre local...
Apr 26, 2024
Pictou County News, April 25th 2024
A funeral has been held a 16-year-old Halifax boy who police say was the victim of a homicide earlier this week. The service was held yesterday at a Mosque in suburban Bedford, followed by a burial at a Muslim cemetery ...
Apr 25, 2024
Pictou County News, April 24th 2024
A PEI woman has died after a crash on Highway 104 near Amherst on Monday afternoon. The head-on collision between an SUV and pickup truck happened just before 12:30pm. The driver and sole occupant of the SUV, a 61-year...
Apr 24, 2024
Pictou County News, April 23rd 2024
Pictou County Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit has charged three people with drug and weapon offences after executing a search warrant at a home in Three Brooks. During the search last Wednesday, police arrested...
Apr 23, 2024