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Tahlia Ali, 19, from Cole Harbour is currently in Toronto hoping to get on a waitlist for her second double-lung transplant.

Cole Harbour teen needs second double-lung transplant: ‘I can’t believe we’re doing this again’

It’s impossible to watch your kid suffer. “As a parent, I just wish that I could take it all away so she doesn’t have to go through all that,” said Lisa Ali, mom of Tahlia Ali. After finally getting a double-lung transplant in 2020 after COVID ...

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Trial to continue in September for Cape Breton Regional Police constable; Cape Breton court report for April 30, 2024

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Sand, surf and safety: Lifeguard shortage improving in Cape Breton

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Lifeguard Bennett MacIntyre is seen at Mira Gut beach in this 2022 file photo. After struggling the past few years to hire enough lifeguards to patrol the province’s beaches, Lifesaving Society of Nova Scotia special projects director Paul D’Eon says the situation has improved this year. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

Online campaign urges boycott of Loblaw-owned stores — including in Cape Breton

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New threats cause three more school closures in HRM; youth arrested in Monday case

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New Brunswick man elects jury trial on Dal Homecoming stabbing charges

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UPDATED: Cape Breton University medical school receives $13M injection

Chris Connors |Updated 1 minutes ago |4 min read

Cape Breton University’s medical school has received an injection of more than $13 million. On Tuesday, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston was at CBU to announce $11.6 million over two years to cover operational costs at the Cape Breton Medical Campus, ...

Two former bouncers at the Halifax Alehouse were scheduled to go on trial in Halifax provincial court Tuesday on an allegation of assaulting a male bar patron in October 2022, but the charge was dismissed after a prosecutor announced the Crown was not calling any evidence.

Assault charge against former Halifax Alehouse bouncers dismissed

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 18 hours ago |5 min read

A charge of assault against two former bouncers at the Halifax Alehouse was dismissed Tuesday after the Crown announced it was not calling evidence at their trial. Alexander Pishori Levy, 38, of Halifax and Matthew Brenton Day, 33, of Dartmouth were ...

Members of the Halifax regional police emergency response team are seen in front of a home on Gaston Road in Dartmouth Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Police release name, photo of suspect in search for armed man in Gaston Road area of Dartmouth

Ian Fairclough · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 13 hours ago |4 min read

Halifax Regional Police were asking people in the Gaston Road area of Dartmouth to shelter in place after responding to a report of a man with a firearm who is loose in the area Tuesday morning. Police responded to a report at 9:20 a.m. of an armed ...

There is a heavy police presence at a provincial building on Prince Street in Sydney. - Mitchell Ferguson/Cape Breton Post

Police presence ended at Provincial Building in Cape Breton

SaltWire Network |Updated 2 hours ago |1 min read

Cape Breton Regional Police have cleared the scene at the provincial building in Sydney where they had a significant presence early Tuesday morning. Police were on scene at the provincial building in Sydney as part of an active investigation. There ...

Halifax Regional Police officers seized some cocaine during a traffic stop in the 2100 block of Robie Street on Monday. - File

Four young men charged in Halifax robbery, handgun recovered

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |1 min read

Four young men were scheduled to appear in provincial court Tuesday to face robbery and weapons charges after an incident at the corner of Harvard and Lawrence streets in Halifax on Monday night. Halifax police, who were called to the robbery at 8:10 ...

The Municipality of Chester is receiving $1 million in funding from Nova Scotia to demolish and replace the Gold River Bridge. - Photo by Mykola Swarnyk / Wiki Commons

Nova Scotia provides $2.3 million for bridge replacement work in St. Margaret's Bay, Municipality of Chester

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read

Two construction projects aim to replace bridges in the St. Margarets Bay-Chester area are receiving a combined $2.3 million from Nova Scotia. St. Margaret's Bay Area Rails to Trails Association is getting more than $1.3 million to swap out the ...

Colette Deveaux’s mother Debbie Ann Hutchinson went missing on Easter weekend in 2017. Seven years later, with no body discovered and no arrests made, Deveaux said she constantly wonders what happened to her mother — and what might happen to someone else. “I spend every day worried about my partner, or my friends, or my family, wondering ‘When is this going to happen again? Who's next?’ And that's not fair.” Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

'Who's next?’: Daughter of murdered Cape Breton woman still lives in fear

Christopher Connors · Multimedia journalist |Updated 19 hours ago |8 min read

The daughter of a murdered Sydney woman says she still lives in fear. Colette Deveaux’s mother Debbie Ann Hutchinson was last seen in person on April 14, 2017, when she went to brunch with her brother on Good Friday. The next day, she was captured on ...

Karen Borgal of New Waterford says she found out her house shifted during post-tropical storm Fiona. She's since repaired the cracks but could not get insurance or disaster relief help for the foundation repairs. BARB SWEET/CAPE BRETON POST

UPDATED: Fiona claim rejected: Cape Breton woman turned down for house damages

Barb Sweet · Multimedia journalist |Updated 19 hours ago |11 min read

Karen Borgal thought she had a few small cosmetic issues — a bit of missing siding, a lost shingle tab and a broken window — to deal with in the aftermath of post-tropical storm Fiona in September 2022 until she heard a disturbing sound. “So in the ...

Acquittal entered on sex offences; Cape Breton court report for April 29, 2024

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |3 min read

A Sydney Mines man has been acquitted on two sex offences. Ryan Paul Matheson, 38, was charged with sexual assault and sexual interference that were alleged to have occurred between June and November 2020. Provincial court Judge Dan MacRury issued ...

Elder Viola Christmas crosses herself as she starts the opening prayer at the ceremony held on Red Dress Day, also known as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit people, held in Membertou last year. It took place at the Red Dress Commemorative Park, located on the front lawn of the Cape Breton Regional Police station in Membertou, and it was the first event held at the park since it opened last year. NICOLE SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON POST

Red Dress Day events planned for Cape Breton

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated a day ago |3 min read

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — As the nation prepares to commemorate the National Day for Awareness of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Sunday, communities across Cape Breton are rallying together to honour and remember those impacted by the ...