Cape Breton Regional Municip. News

A Sydney businessman says while he can't understand the closing of his last business, he has found a way to turn a negative into a positive.

Organizers of Race the Cape 2013 have announced that local hospitals will benefit from an auction that will take place in Baddeck as part of Race the Cape 2013.

The group says attendance remains strong at their church, and there's no reason for it to close.

Cape Breton University celebrated the accomplishments of more than 630 graduates during its spring convocation ceremony which was held on Saturday, May 11th.

With just 24 hours until the Southern Hemisphere's greatest interactive light and sound spectacle, Sydney has become a technological experiment in luminosity and color and the city is bracing itself for 18 days of hi-tech festivity.

Scouts, beaver scouts and cub scouts are expected to plant 4,000 trees on Crown land in Point Aconi on Saturday as part of Scouts Canada's national Scoutrees project.

The former Black Bear Tavern in Windsor will house the new Nova Scotia Tourism Agency.

For many cast members of the upcoming production of "Les MisA©rables," starring in the world longest-running musical is a dream job.

L'Arche Cape Breton is the recipient of this year's Cape Breton District Health Authority's Donald Ferguson Health Leadership award.

People in Sydney Mines are calling for someone to fill a large sinkhole on a property after a dog fell down it one week ago.

In Columbiana County Municipal Court on Monday, Alex D.M. Cook, 19, Millrock Road, New Waterford, was sentenced to 90 days in jail consecutive with time he is serving on an underage consumption charge for criminal damaging.

Rave: for a sweet deal. According to the Victoria Standard, members of the Aerial Experiment Association 2005 from the Welland, Ont.

On April 28, at 7 p.m., my sister Alice Fraser closed her eyes at Soldier's Memorial Hospital, Middleton, N.S. In her final hours, she was supported by a cloud of witnesses - Paulette, an ICU nurse, to whom she proclaimed, "I am dying and I'm not afraid;" her daughter Cathy and husband David; her brother Ted and wife Helen; their daughter Nina.

"Boarded SS J. Pinckney Henderson which was burning near entrance to Sydney harbour, Nova Scotia, on Aug.

Gary C. Quetot, 60, of Dogwood Circle passed away at 10:35 a.m. Saturday at Hospice House, Poland, following a ten-month illness.

Nova Scotia lobster fishermen and their families gathered on their boats in Main-a-Dieu on Sunday for the annual Blessing of the Fleet ceremony.

Ajax campaign anything but bombing. AJAX -- Lori Jackson, left, co-chairwoman of the Bomb Girls Legacy Committee, along with Nancy Maxwell, right, also a member of the committee, in front of pieces of Ajax's history located in Town hall.

Walter Leja was remembered for his heroism during a service near the Roslyn Elementary school in Westmount on Friday.

Spring Bird Walk on the Pleasant Point Nature Preserve, Cushing, led by Georges River Land Trust volunteer and Midcoast Maine Audubon Society former president Bill Goodwill.

Two requests for proposals have been issued for the construction of a new ferry terminal in North Sydney, N.S. Marine Atlantic says interested contractors have until June 10 to submit bids for work on the site, including utilities and paving.