The Nova Scotia Community College in Stellarton will host a special African Heritage Month event on Thursday.

Pictou RCMP are investigating two incidents from overnight Monday.

Two premiere artists from the North Star Opera Company in Britain will perform at a concert in aid of St. George's Ghana Outreach Project in...

The News is celebrating the progression of business in the county in an upcoming special edition, Progress.

A young couple and their seven-month-old baby escaped without injury after a fire this morning caused significant damage to their Pictou County home.

Clan Donald Pictou County celebrated their 21st annual memorial church service at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Glencoe, to commerate the massacre in Glencoe, Scotland, in...

Nova Scotia's justice minister is hoping an announcement on the location of a new jail will be made by the end of next month at...

A small amount of cash was taken in a break, enter and theft at the Westville library last Friday.

Five people were forced temporarily from their home near downtown New Glasgow on Sunday night after a fire that began in a shed spread to...

 PICTOU – When Dennis Chipman looks in the rearview mirror and sees the grins of delight on the faces of the veterans that have piled aboard...

NEW?GLASGOW – Voting is well underway for The News’ Virtual Music Hall of Fame – and competition is fierce.

NEW GLASGOW – Students at Temperance Street Elementary School are preparing a public presentation of everything African Heritage Month as the annual event draws to...

Joey MacDonald's jersey was raised last night prior to the Weeks Jr. A Crushers' game against the Amherst Ramblers.

The saga of the snakes down the drain had a happy ending at the Calgary Zoo on Thursday.

Walmart says it will create up to 6,500 jobs in retail and construction this year as part of a plan to open 35 to 40...

The Canadian Jewish Congress is condemning what it calls an "outrageous attack" on a mixed-race couple who had a cross burned on the front lawn...

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says Canada is 'troubled' by word that Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants control over an independent elections watchdog.

A father who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his three children could be granted an absolute discharge if it's determined he doesn't pose...

The mother of two little boys found dead in the bathtub of their home has been charged with their murder.

A methane gas explosion caused an underground chamber in a coal mine in northwestern Turkey to collapse Tuesday, killing 17 workers, the governor said -...

Puppet cleavage has been ruled out for advertising posters in Colorado Springs bus shelters.

The office of France's president says a French hostage who was held captive in Mali for three months by Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot has been...

A woman has pleaded guilty to selling two children for a cockatoo and 5 in what her attorney called an attempt to do a good...

Iran has formally set out its terms for giving up most of its cache of enriched uranium in a confidential document - and the conditions...

The two Land Rovers and another four-by-four rumbled through a mountain pass between two provinces in central Afghanistan.