A Cape Breton lobster fisherman and his crew had the encounter of a lifetime this week when a 4.5-metre great white shark circled his boat just off Sight Point, coming close enough to briefly bite ...

Former Nova Scotia finance minister Allan MacMaster at his home in Troy, Inverness County. Photo by Contributed “I’ll never close the door on it but we are very focused on this opportunity before us ...

The Nova Scotia government is giving the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources in Cape Breton $893,000 to fund Mi’kmaq-led climate change adaptation work.