Antigonish News

Students at a school in northeastern Nova Scotia got an early start to the weekend after a fire broke out.

A spokesperson for the diocese of Antigonish says parishioners are responding positively to an offer of counselling, as they continue to deal with the fallout of child pornography allegations against Bishop Raymond Lahey.

Jon Driver was pleased Thursday when he heard Simon Fraser University had ranked first in the comprehensive category of the annual Maclean's magazine university rankings, but he still took the news with a grain of salt.

A judge has put off the case of a Roman Catholic bishop facing child-pornography charges.

Archbishop Alphonsus L. Penney, the former Archbishop of St. John's, returned to the province on Oct.

Public health officials in Nova Scotia are urging people to be patient for the H1N1 shot, as the second wave of the illness brings dozens of new cases.

The Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is inviting air travellers and concerned citizens to the Nova Scotia premiere of "Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines," a ground-breaking documentary on air contamination aboard airplanes.

Health officials say it's your best shot to protect against a worldwide pandemic of H1N1 flu.

Linden MacIntyre is better known for his decades of investigative work with the CBC rather than his more recent foray into book writing, so he fully expected that readers would ask him about the real-life inspirations for "The Bishop's Man," which is one of five novels shortlisted for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.

HALIFAX Nova Scotia Conservatives will have a new leader in just more than a year.

MAYBE SOME, "a few, a few of them, many of them, most of them - who knows? - had some kind of inkling that this was wrong and could have said: 'No, thank you very much.'" Those words were uttered by the man who preceded Raymond Lahey as Bishop of Antigonish, quoted in a book on the Church scandal by author Leon Podles.

In a nail-biting finish, voters in the riding of Inverness resisted any urge to defect to the government side and remained Tory blue following Tuesday's byelection.

Former prime minister Joe Clark says Canada needs to renew a Foreign Affairs tradition that once had broader goals.

Counsellors have been hired to help Roman Catholics in Nova Scotia deal with the emotional fallout from Bishop Raymond Lahey's child porn allegations.

New Democrat Maurice Smith greets his supporters in Antigonish on Tuesday night.

A Halifax man faces a charge of attempted murder in connection with a shooting in Dartmouth last June.

Questions about credibility and proof often come up when people discuss the roiling controversy over the sexual misdeeds of priests in the Antigonish diocese.

Search warrants says Ottawa police discovered hundreds of pictures and videos on Bishop Raymond Lahey's laptop computer, with many showing young males involved in sexual acts.

Rebukes in the spring turned to accolades in the fall as federal and provincial governments came through last week with funding for the latest addition to the Cape Breton University campus, a Centre for Sustainability in Energy and Environment.

Early this morning, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Unit executed a search warrant at a residence of former Bishop Raymond Lahey.