Get your bubble on, Nova Scotia!
HALIFAX: Bubble up, Atlantic Canada – and bring your identification with you. Starting Friday, July 3, if people live in another Atlantic Canadian province and want to visit Nova Scotia,…
Streatch addresses online concern over financial support for LHS, MRHS graduations
FALL RIVER: After some online concerns were posted about Councillor Steve Streatch’s use of money from his district account, he reached out to The Laker News to set the record…
Lancaster named 2021 N.S. Canada Games team’s Chef de Mission
FALL RIVER: A familiar face on the basketball court at Lockview High and with the Fall River Rebels basketball program has been named the Chef de Mission for the province’s…
Middle Sackville man arrested after fleeing RCMP
BEAVER BANK: A 26-year-old Middle Sackville man was arrested just after midnight on June 28 after he refused to stop for Halifax District RCMP. Cpl. Lisa Croteau said a member…
Community steps up to give HERH grads a memorable event, special grad swag bags
MILFORD: As the saying goes “it takes a village to raise a child.” Well, for the 2020 graduates of Hants East Rural High in Milford, it was the community that…
SLt Matt Pyke returns home
Firefighters lined overpasses from Halifax Airport to Truro honouring friend RAWDON: With fire trucks from 16 departments lining the overpasses between the Halifax Airport and Truro, the procession for Sub…
Woman found after SAR, RCMP initiate search in Waverely
WAVERLEY: A missing 69-year-old woman was quickly found by searchers in the Spider Lake area of Waverley on June 27. The search was initiated after the woman was last seen…
PHOTOS: LHS students don prom wear; community grad celebration planned
FALL RIVER: It may not have been the way they all had envisioned it, but the graduating students of Lockview High made the most of dressing up for their “prom.”…
RCMP officers from away hoping to lift ‘cloud of sadness’ from Enfield detachment
MAIN PHOTO: Cpl. Tim Tong has enjoyed his time in East Hants as one of many backfill officers filling in for regular members stationed here who are off seeking treatment…
No bark to these doggie treats, just tastiness: Waverley girl starts business during COVID19
WAVERLEY: Brooklyn Peyton is getting to combine two of the things she’s most passionate about—dogs and baking, and not necessarily in that order. Peyton, a Waverley resident and soon-to-be Grade…